#i'm on tiktok i guess

[artist-ellen]

Snow White process video!

I like this illustration... but I feel like I could push it further... so I might revisit it on a file that can take more layers. It's procreate's one flaw, the larger the canvas the fewer the layers.

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram, tiktok or check out my coloring book available now \ („• ֊ •„) /

https://linktr.ee/ellen.artistic

[rongzhi]

Wuling vans

English added by me :)

[barghest-arts]

WHOAH y'all really liked these TLT TikTok AUs huh?? Ok have some more

Part 1 / Part 3

[solarpunkani]

I saw this on Twitter and honestly felt a bit sick just thinking about it. The sheer determination some people have to keep anyone from getting any sort of help, any sort of benefits, to kick down someone who has such a big heart to help those around her?

Here's the Tiktok where the woman, Carly Burd, talks about it. She shows the salted state of the land. This video was posted 21 hours ago at the time of posting this.

Another video where she discusses it, this one was posted 4 hours ago. Over 5 kilograms of salt, she estimates, was put into the soil of her allotment. She'd already planted onions and potatoes with her kids, which are now ruined. She's working to find a solution, which I genuinely hopes she does.

From what I can tell, this is a GoFundMe that she runs--not just for this tragic occurrence, but to generally support the work she does. It has a goal of £4,000 pounds and at the time of writing this, it's raised over £54,000 pounds, but by all means if you want to donate and help her out I'm sure she wouldn't turn any help away.

I genuinely hope all the help she's getting with this lets her grow a lot more food and help a lot more people.

[Photo ID: a scrrenshot of two tweets of a Twitter thread by Elsbeth Tashioni @THISisLULE, with 6,102 retweets, 2,345 Quote retweets, 28.1K likes, and 1,597 Bookmarks. The leading tweet was made at 4:24 AM EST on 4/12/23 (April 12th 2023). "Some UK woman on tiktok has been making videos about how she’s been feeding people (partly through an allotment) in her community who are struggling due to the cost of living crisis and then yesterday she posts that someone went and salted her land so she can’t grow food anymore" The second tweet has 25 replies, 1,391 retweets, and 14.5k likes. "Do you know how evil you have to be to sneak out at night, not to even steal to benefit yourself, but to destroy the possibility of people in need getting help?" End ID]

[faust1926]

psychotic people are allowed to have religion, psychotic people are allowed to have spiritual beliefs. if you're both psychotic and religious that's ok -- more than ok: that's wonderful! religion can be a beautiful thing, yours included!!

spiritual health is EXTREMELY important for humans to nurture. it'd be cruel to deny that part of life to a whole demographic. we are allowed to have lives!!!!!!!!!!

forcing us to indiscriminately repress every single instance of our spirituality without care, telling us it "must" be unhealthy as a preliminary reaction, or even joking that our spiritual beliefs are the reason we "need" meds/therapy/to be institutionalized are all literally examples of ableism. frankly, I don't understand how this isn't plainly obvious to nonpsychotics.

+ I'm saying this as someone who does have harmful religious beliefs as part of my delusions. I'm saying this as someone who does want to "cure" some of my beliefs away. I'm the stereotype these nonpsychotics are imagining when they deny us the right to religion. and still, though they can try, they can not deny me the parts of myself I want to keep; they can not deny me my religion.

[fuckthisshitimin]

Unalive -- A Love Letter

I came across the word unalive first in a tumblr post. Reading it several times over, I got that it showed distaste for the term but was yet unaware of its censorship-roots and tik-tok popularity. For a split moment before my mind caught up and started thinking, my non-native-English-speaker brain went “new word; un + alive; looks like [unsee—unsex]; associated with [impossible—reality-shifting]” and I fell in love a little. No, no, I fell hard in love, lots in love, okay, with unalive. Sorry. I know it’s a bad word.

But unsee, unsex — the one who wishes to unsee is the one that has seen, when Lady Macbeth asks to be unsexed it is to higher god-like powers, unalive suggests; the hand that kills had a hand in a-living you in the first place. The Cambridge Dictionary defines unsee as “to return to a situation in which you have not seen something” to unalive would be “to return someone to a situation in which they have not been alive” ;;; this is TERRIFYING actually. It is worse than being merely killed.

What the hell is unalive. What the hell happened. It’s so grammatically weird, I’m not sure it’s a verb or a noun. An action upon someone or a state of being.

Oh, Oscar, he’s —

unalive? analive?

it’s not that he’s dead but

he’s the opposite of what he was.

unalived?

see, something grabbed through Oscar and turned the organs inside out/or his soul, inside-out

he’s been — hallowed — unalived — was it “hollowed”? — claimed back — taken a-way and a-part —un-a-live-d — his living license got revoked — we got a call from God — It said “we’re gonna have to have to have to; unalive Oscar” — emptied out — unalived.

We’ll forget he ever was here soon.

[sashannarcy]

I need people to stop throwing around the word narcissist I NEED th

[theriu]

Imagining social media sites and the celebrities on them as kids with dolls and action figures like

Twitter: The collector kid, has a HUGE stock her parents keep adding to, cycles which ones she brings to school to show off every day. Can’t actually name most of them but will brag about having the most, especially if they're particularly popular at the moment.

Instagram: Dresses all of hers up in fun outfits and takes photos of them like they're always on vacation or going to movie premiers. Just a massive scrapbook of pictures. She tends to hide or downplay the pictures of ones the other kids say aren't cool anymore, though.

TikTok: Constantly filming his in little videos with the camera his mom gave him. Always texting his friends the videos featuring the most popular figures but also likes to slip in ones that "you probably wouldn't recognize but trust me they're cool now."

Tumblr: "This is Neil Gaiman and this is Lynda Carter, they aren't that many but they are the best 'cause they're mine and I love them."

[n7punk]

one of my mom's students sent her a message asking her how to raise his grade (not uncommon) and she showed it to me like lol isn't this funny. and i just stared at it because from the language used alone i knew this kid was a tumblr user. it was only a few sentences of stuff like "literally on my knees begging and PLEADING what do i need to do to raise my grade" and i dont remember all of them but i know i've seen some of them word-for-word on here

[theinoculator]

I just realised that just a few days ago, there was only the main theme on here in number 2, surrounded by a bunch of nemesis themes

(this is not supposed to be offensive btw. I'm just it pointing out)

[artist-ellen]

Process video for the Rapunzel Illustration!

Which colour scheme did you like better?

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok: @ellenartistic

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

"🎶You can make it different 🎶"

"🎶You can make it right 🎶"

[this is a reference to the Steven Universe movie- the song being "Change", i think is what it's called :P]

[macaiv]

The caption made me laugh just a tad 🤭

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

[nordic-language-love]

So I think my last post about this was maybe not very well worded and didn't really make the points I was angry about very well, so I'm gonna just try again.

I like watching street interviews with Japanese people and foreigners in Japan. They're interesting for learning more about Japan and Japanese culture and also what experiences other people in Japan have, as well as maybe some tips for me (being a foreigner in Japan). Most of these are well-received and people have a lot of positive things to say, but occasionally you get interviews with people who talk about anime a lot, or women with unnatural hair colours or even dressed up in harajuku fashion. And this is where the assholes start to come out. This is where you get comments like, "what a weeb" and "this is so cringe" and "I bet she thinks Japan is just anime", even if that person lives in Japan and speaks knowledgeably about living there.

It's annoying at best. Firstly because liking anime is perfectly normal and not cringe in Japan, and acting holier-than-thou anytime a westerner brings up anime is... actually pretty cringe, tbh. Of course Japan is more than just anime. But the chances are, the foreigner living in Japan knows that better than the idiot on instagram who's probably never been there (or maybe went to Tokyo or Kyoto for a week once).

Secondly because street fashion like lolita and decora and fairy kei is absolutely a thing. It's not necessarily common outside of Tokyo (I say this having only been in Tokyo, Nagoya and Yamagata, so it could be more widespread), but it's definitely a style you can see on Japanese fashionistas. Westerners wearing that style is not "cringe" or "weeb". They are not "anime wannabes". A lot of them actually live in Japan and are a hell of a lot more respectful and appreciative of Japanese culture than the people slinging insults at them over the internet.

Honestly, whenever I see people throwing the term "weeb" around like that, it just sounds like gatekeeping. It sounds like, "ha ha ha, behold this inferior specimen who cannot possibly know more about Japan and Japanese culture than I! They must be informed that they are beneath me and my superior knowledge, for I know that Japan is not just anime, and this pathetic being clearly does not!" Especially when a lot of these comments come from men and are directed towards women. It reminds me of when men tell women they're "fake nerds looking for attention" and they "don't really like comic books/video games/cars/whatever".

Not that I'm saying there aren't people who are obsessed with anime to the point it's their entire personality. And there are people who associate Japan with anime and "weird wacky fashion" and don't really know anything else about it (mostly because they're ignorant and not interested in changing that). Those people exist! But these comments aren't directed at people like that, and that's the problem. Obviously liking and appreciating Japan and Japanese culture is awesome, but dismissing people who are enthusiastic about anime or alternative fashion styles - especially harajuku styles - as weebs just outs you as an ignorant asshole. You're not special for understanding Japan has more to it than just anime, but you are a bellend for putting others down for their interest in specific aspects of Japanese culture.