#anyways bedtime

[candycatstuffs]

Shoutout to how tasty the popsicle looks in my summer rouge drawing, i want to Eat It.

[jamesvowles]

@princemick -> oooh, only if u want but mick + losing feelings wud fit so well. i bet on losing dogs.

driver + a palette

[hermitcraft-8]

breaking: my famous mutual just confirmed they have less than a third of the followers that i have

[triflingshadows]

Trying out watercolor brushes in PS, trying to remember how the fuck watercolors work

[seokmatthewz]

after today my hell week will FINALLY end

[vignetted]

halfway through tár this shit rules

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

I’m going to bed now, sleeping off the bad vibes but anyways bap parents fun fact for y’all, half of them are in a weird /pos (mostly) polycule and also there are some messy relationship dynamics but at least we have link & joyce <333

[milkymoon-ramblings]

Considering going dairy product free for like a week since I’m lactose intolerant and it is getting worse

[ollys-useless-rambles]

why was watching spiderman literally the only okay part of the day what the fuck

[zakai-doodles]

LGBTober day 3!

prompt: shy kiss

i wasn’t super sure what to do for this one so it’s actually just rakze and inoru kissing

rakze is (as of now far i am in the story) convinced anyone who could possibly care for her outside of two people (her late best friend and her brother) will betray her or hate her. she didn’t have the best time growing up (understatement). she’s been traveling with the group for about a month now, but has only had one moment of vulnerability. and that moment was the first point these two’s relationship starts growing.

to add to rakzes… everything, she’s trans and grew up in a very transphobic (and ableist but that’s related to her brother) village, so she has internalized the idea that she’s unloveable because she’s not “a real girl”. inoru will change that. hopefully. at least partially. it’s hard to escape internalized transphobia.

in the second part of their story, i’m hoping to get deeper into rakzes internalized transphobia, inspired by my own.

inoru is not as developed. i have yet to come up with anything that could have developed her character. she’s kinda just the way she is

[ravenbees]

Finished my grading!! 😁 it’s 2:30am but I don’t have class for 12 hours. But also I have to Do Things tomorrow & continue doing things at a steady pace for the next ten days bc there’s an avalanche of checklist items waiting to kill me each time i check one thing off. Fr the sweet potato chips are keeping me from eating drywall

[quillsand]

sorry for the lies and deception. it will happen again

[seventh-district]

Making Incorrect H:SR Quotes Until I Run Out of (hopefully) Original Ideas - Pt. 2

[Pt. 1] [Pt. 3] [Pt. 4] [Pt. 5] [Pt. 6]

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Dick and Bruce never had their falling out and Robin passed peacefully from Dick to Jason upon his adoption.

It was harmonious. It was great. Jason didn’t only get a dad out of jacking the batmobile’s tires, he got Dick, too. Some weird cross between goofy older brother and protective mom. Dick and Bruce have an actual fight about which of them gets to legally adopt him.

So when Jason dies and comes back to life, his single minded focus isn’t only on returning to Bruce. It‘s also set on returning to Dick.

Meanwhile, Jason‘s death absolutely destroyed Dick.

And now there’s a madman with a red helmet running the streets of Blüdhaven and Gotham City who thinks it’s okay to call him “mom” and Dick hasn’t been this pissed since he found out about Joker‘s continued survival.

[elyserie]

Fate's Refusal to Honour (or at least properly research) Depictions of Non-Japanese Figures 2: Electric Bogaloo ft. Wandjina from the Current JP Summer Event

Disclaimer: While I am an Australian, I am NOT of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent. Therefore, I am coming at this issue from an outsider's perspective. If there is an Aboriginal person, or more specifically of the Mowanjum people from the Kimberly regions, please PLEASE correct me if I am wrong on any front.

The culprit behind the events of the current Summer story in the JP servers has recently been revealed to be Wandjina, a creator Dreamtime figure from the Mowanjum people's culture.

In any other context, I would be thrilled to have an Australian figure in FGO, but the problem here is the figure they use.

Wandjina are sacred to the Mowanjum people, and therefore one needs to go through Aboriginal Law to obtain the right to use the Wandjina's image.

In Australia, this resulted in an actual conflict between a non-indigenous artist and aboriginals. You can read more here, but one quote to note is from an Aboriginal man of the Darug people, Chris Tobin: "Aboriginal law is very specific on what you can and can't do with wan[d]jinas." Another quote on this topic is made by the owner of an Aboriginal art gallery, Adrian Newstead: "Only a few Aboriginal artists ever win the right to depict wan[d]jina, and only then after years of initiations and ceremonies..."

I am NOT attaching an image of FGO's iteration of Wandjina due to this. Not only is her appearance only Aboriginal on a surface-level with her 'dot art' aesthetic (dot art* is only a recent addition to Aboriginal culture, created back in the 1970s), having no resemblance to an Aboriginal person (note, that while many Aboriginal people are white/pale, FGO continually chooses to depict people of colour as light skinned as possible. And yes, I know she's blue, not white. There is literally no records of her being blue skinned; is this because Wandjina's are associated with rain????) but she is also not very Wandjina looking? These figures do not have mouths, have large eyes meant to resemble the eye of a storm and are typically depicted with elaborate headdresses. That little glowing boomerang on her head is not exactly elaborate. And WHY does she have a boomerang??? Because she's Australian???? By that logic, every Japanese figure needs to have a katana. #GiveMurasakiaKatana2023.

There is also the issue of Cnoc na Riabh. While it is funny to think that she's a foreigner because of an Australian influence, Yaraan-doo is also another Aboriginal figure. And it is slapped onto a white girl for a fan service event. I'd just rather Fate leave Aboriginal culture alone and just do, like, Ned Kelly or something if they're going to continue like this.

More resources and info under the read more!

You'll have noted in the quotes that I've edited an 'n' into wanjinas. This is so I didn't confuse anyone: both can be the correct spelling! I just stuck to what I thought FGO was using for their Wandjina.

Here's an overview of what wandjinas are and their inappropriate use in art: https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/what-are-wandjinas

Here's another page about an inappropriate use of Wandjinas (note: it's only a short synopsis about a documentary that covered the incident, I'm uncertain if you would be able to get access to the documentary outside of Australia): https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/who-paintin-dis-wandjina

It should also be noted that the two websites I've linked above are from the website Creative Spirits. While it is run by a non-Indigenous person, the person behind it is currently transitioning it to be an Aboriginal owned and run resource. You can read more about how this site is run in his About page.

*If you want to know about dot art's origin, here and here are some resources on them. However, this article brings up something interesting that I would like to bring back to FGO Wandjina's dot art aesthetic. It notes that "the term 'dot painting' stems from what the Western eye sees when faced with contemporary Aboriginal acrylic paintings" (emphasis mine). All three articles note that dots were used to obfuscate sacred symbols and artifacts so that those who were not initiated into their cultures could not see what these figures were. In that case, what the hell is the dot art seen on Fate's Wandjina supposed to represent? In this article, it talks about the symbolism in Indigenous art. Fate's Wandjina has none.

[randomminty]

If pokemon wont give me bea and allister siblingisms ill just make it MYSELF