#expressing-yourself

[quotelr]

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

Gianni Versace

[thepersonalwords]

Funny how we do not realize the true value and legacy of a living icon until they suddenly pass away. Truth is, there are many living legends among us, we just do not stop and take time to notice their worth until it's too late.

Germany Kent

[inkskinned]

the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

[yugsly]

You should draw that thing you really like but are afraid people will attack you with hammers for. 🌻 You should do it !

[fairydriver]

if you post an image in discord itll round the corners, but once you hit a certain smallness it rounds into a circle. so basically if you make an image that is 32x32 and you post it in discord itll go from this

to this.

so you basically can just draw a little face in mspaint or something and paste it into discord and itll look like a little emoji. you can potentially mess around with this a lot, its proportional to your image going smaller and it doesnt have to be a square either.

[theartingace]

The secret to getting yourself to do art studies, study the faceclaim for your Blorbo(Vico Ortiz for Murderbot in this case)

[fictionadventurer]

I'm getting more and more scornful toward the idea of art as self-expression. Why would I want to express myself? Why should you pay one millisecond of attention to "my identity"? I want to express truth! Point toward something outside myself. Work with you to explore something universal rather than sucking you into the black hole that is me me me.

You're going to express yourself as you make art. That's pretty much unavoidable. Even if you blatantly copy something else, that's going to express the kinds of things you're obsessed with. You've got your own background, your own experiences, your own influences that have shaped your assumptions about the world and what you see as true. This stew of influences is something that is going to be different from everyone else's, whether you know it or not, and it's going to make your art naturally unique.

The real trick is to use that personal perspective to provide a new angle on something universal. Show us truth. Bring us beauty. Enter a conversation with your audience. It's not supposed to be about you. It's about something bigger than you.

[afraidparade]

these losers again

[vaxolang]

Express yourself

Acrylic painting on canvas

Size 60 x 50 cm

[spiritualseeker777]

[quotelr]

The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.

Euphoria Godsent

[throesofincreasingwonder]

Dean would not be femme as a woman because his hyper-performance of gender is entirely based on the deification of masculinity send tweet

[m30wow]

Hello everyone! It's Meow (again)

Every series or movie usually has a deep meaning about something specific, and I always thought Miraculous: The Adventures of Ladybug and Chat Noir was about love, and I think it's a nice month to mention this word, but love in a general sense.

Love is beautiful, but beauty is subjective. Because love is so broad that it encompasses all shades, from white to black.

That's why I think Miraculous: Ladybug and Chat Noir is about love, because in every plot, from the villain to the heroes, and in every character's subplots, there is love, there are conflicts about love. And this is more in line with the translations of the Ladybug song from the PV. Although they've said it was just nonsense, I liked one of the lines they translated: "Giving love has turned bad."

Some have tried to theorize, despite Thomas' confirmation (as always), that Chat Noir (PV) sings this song to Ladybug (PV) because of the many rejections she's suffered. And for my part, I don't like limiting love to romance (much less limiting Marinette to that) because it narrows our vision too much. I thought about this line from a broader perspective.

Taking advantage of the fact that we're in this beautiful Pride Month and with this beautiful couple, which unfortunately meant I wanted to draw all the characters who are possibly canonically part of the community, but my life isn't that accessible over time, and I wanted to take more advantage of this line that has captivated me. Because love was never classified as good or bad. In fact, its first definition is "an intense feeling of the human being that, starting from its own inadequacy, needs and seeks encounter and union with another being." We have characterized it in a certain way (is that bad? No), and living in the society we live in today, there are times when that phrase comes back to me and I wonder: "When did giving love become bad?"

However, religious people believe that love is having faith, and that faith, that love, has helped millions of people today have the right to love whoever they want. Perhaps we haven't yet made progress in discrimination as a society, and there will be times of relapse like now, but if you have been able to resist through love (because love is also resistance and rebellion), you will always be able to.

Happy day to those who are part of this community, whether in its struggle or if you belong to it! Keep loving. ❤

Bye bye!

(If you have any thoughts or comments on this topic, don't be afraid, I love your comments. Also, we're all human and I could be wrong.)

(In real life I'm not that talkative, sorry for so much text.)

[hitwiththefandomz]

Story time: made this piece with an old friend in mind. They had one of those almost photo-realistic art styles and we would respectfully hype up each other’s art

People thought it was weird that they would find interest in my cartoonish style if they already themselves had such an advanced one

But peeps got to remember despite your differences, we’re all still artists and just vibing to our own interests and skills･:*+.

Took one of our conversations as inspo and inserted it - song used is “Blue Boy” by Mac DeMarco

[hansoape]

warhammer dudes will treat the female characters in the nastiest way. Degrade Celestine's and Yvraine's characters to nothing but waifu bait. Talk about what they'd like to do to sororitas with consent optional. Gleefully describe what a daemonculaba is and act like its so cool and edgy. But the minute female fans and queers start to talk about finding a male character attractive NAW that's where they draw the line. How dare we find Titus handsome. Filthy perverts degenerates all of us. Its apparently too much for them and they get really, really mad about it. Stay pissy you gross ass weirdos, your hypocrisy stinks through the walls