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Um if you write Jason having to get drugs for Catherine I want you dead btw. Not only does it tell me you assume the average drug dealer would give the hard shit to a very small child and then not supervise them at all (classist stereotype that all drug dealers are inherently evil + lazy writing with no grasp on reality) and you genuinely think that Catherine was CONSTANTLY high, as if that's even possible without overdosing far sooner than she did. That's without even getting into the bad mom Catherine propaganda.
#dc#jason todd#Catherine Todd#I don't like talking about personal shit on the Internet#but I'm someone who grew up in a family of addicts and dealers and the attitude so many of these fics have#is so fucked up#like yeah my uncle would give a 15 year old weed but he won't even let them be in the house while he's doing coke#every dealer I've ever met had been THRILLED about my enthusiasm towards school and they always encouraged me#Multiple of them have given me actual job opportunities because they know a lot of people and they help their own#you guys actually just hate poor people and demonize addiction!#it's actually starting to piss me off#you don't have to write Cathy as a perfect example of morality#but if you turn her into a neglectful monster I assume you're either classist or projecting#it actually is possible to write Jason parentifying himself in order to take care of Cathy#without blaming a terminally ill woman who was already dying and likely in immense pain#you guys could be critiquing capitalism and our healthcare system and how it fails the most vulnerable people in our society#but instead you're playing up how gross and evil addicts and dealers and petty crooks are to make Jason's lige sadder???#his life already sucks you don't have to be classist to make it worse I promise
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The “baby-girlification” of cis male characters is an attempt to make the concept of masculinity palatable. Often the fan wants to relate to the character or is attracted to them.
But, sometimes it’s a trauma response. In creating a safe version of a male character, they find comfort in projecting their own trauma onto him rather than process the trauma within themself. Removing themself from the narrative is a protective/coping mechanism.
#hot take#is it though?#it’s always the mentally ill-coded men#baby girl#hes so babygirl#my babygirl#this is not criticism or critique#just an observation
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Hey, do you remember that really homoerotic scene from Skyfall? No? That's okay, here's a Vettonso version of it :)
- explanation & w/o text:
Hi hello, finally my weird psychosexual relationship with Casino Royale has come to fruition. Yeah this is directly based off a scene from Skyfall, but I def envision the vibe as being more like Casino Royale hehe. I can't believe I made that inspo board for this AU almost 4 weeks ago, and then ended up drawing a four panel "comic" about it. Ahhhh proud of myself, a bit, a tad. I think this took 20+ hours across the span of a week? God. Anyways I digress! The AU!!
First of all, their Bond song would be "My Way of Life" by Frank Sinatra. It's so toxic, codependent and obsessive, I'm in love with it. And it really suits Fernando and his motivations and outlook in this AU. Basically, MI6(in the context of James Bond) in this AU is an analog for Ferrari. It picks theses guys up, tells them that they're Ferrari MI6's most special boy, chews them up, and then spits them out when they're finished extracting all their talent and skill and life force.
Much like with Ferrari, Seb in this AU replaces Fernando after Fernando loses favor and becomes undesirable. Now Seb is the new golden boy, and Fernando has turned to a life of crime! Fernando resents Seb for this of course, but also becomes obsessed with him and the idea of him , and how they are connected. It's weird to watch someone else basically go down your exact same path and unknowingly make all the same mistakes(buying into the mysticism of it all too much, being overly cocky, having naive beliefs and goals, etc.) He is caught between wanting to doom Seb even more but also wanting to "save" him, by corrupting him and convincing him to work together.
Basically: He's both a Bond girl and Bond villain.
Fernando is in such a weird place in this AU. I think he's just very dramatic. Seb is just casually living his best 007(005?) life, and Nando is watching him with binoculars, whispering to himself: "DOESN'T HE UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE NARRATIVE FOILS!?" Yeah he hates Seb, but like the song lyrics say, their lives and dreams are inherently tied up together. He would feel lost without Seb, because Seb basically, unknowingly, destroyed and then took over his life. Maybe he'll feel satisifed if he manipulates Seb into going down the exact same path a bit better.
About the drawings themselves. Still can't believe this scene is a real thing that actually happened, insane to me. But in this AU, after the events of these drawings, Fernando definitely kicked all his henchman out of the room, and fucked Seb in the chair. And then against the wall. And then on the floor. Hey man, Seb is already looking mighty delicious with his unbuttoned attire and being tied up.
I think the general plot would be that Fernando keeps trying to seduce him to the dark side, and Seb keeps making him think it worked, only to escape at the end of the encounter. Leading Fernando to just come up with increasingly more violent and kinky traps. Seb goes along with it(read: enjoys it), leaving Fernando satisifed, only to somehow escape and wink and make kissy faces at Fernando in the process. (Fernando smoking cigarette in bed: "How do I make him stay. Sigh.")
I like to think though that Fernando does win in the end, by realizing, ah wait shit I do need to actually explain my motivations to Seb. And Seb is so worn down by his job, not Fernando, and how he's being treated, that he listens, really actually listens, and realizes Fernando does really have valid reasons. And then they become evil crime husbands yayyyy. Wow you thought this was a espionage AU? Well it is, but just not the outcome you'd expect.
#ah well this was certainly a project....#rn i feel like im devolving into illness so im glad i could finish this up before it possibly gets worse#this is my magnum opus as of rn. just bcs ive not really drawn such a longform thing for them!! happy w it :)#i think i def like the first one the best#it made me suffer so bad but i think i soften on my own art after a few days#like i finish it and know its 'good' but cant help but critique every little thing#but ive had that one done for almost a week so now i look at it and really love it#i was originally just going to draw that one only but then realized i really like the full dialog so. might as well.#generally i liked this though bcs even if it ws difficult. it was nice to have really direct and clear reference#like ah ik where im going w this rather than it being an image in my head that i cant represent the way that I want#ah anyways all my vettonso aus tend to be just wanting to explore specific dynamics of theirs#and this one is basically how i feel about their mutual relationship to the institution of ferrari and how it affects their dynamic#basically: THEY'RE MIRRORS!!!#there's always something to be said abt nando being resentful abt seb bcs of 2010/2012/etc and then seb taking his seat at ferrari#but then witnessing seb basically go thru the same trials and tribulations and failures at ferrari#and realizing huh wait maybe he's not who i was villianizing him as. maybe hes at my level too. maybe he's not infallible. maybe hes like m#a very bitter nando who has to fight btwn his impulse to ruin seb further or to relate to him and start to like him#so yeah that's ^ basically what i want to portray in this au(just like all AUs tbh)#f1#formula 1#sebastian vettel#fernando alonso#catie.rambling.txt#catie.art.#vettonso#bond au
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Logically, I understand that prepwork and setup take time and are distinct skills from crafting
Emotionally, I don’t understand how I have so many projects in different stages that never seem to get finished and always seem to expand
#mini rant#vent post#plus while I understand that I get ill#I don’t understand how this prevents my projects from being completed#also tutorials are separate and distinct skill from making (which I have also not yet mastered)#which is also a different skill from self-critique#I am trying to decide#whether it’s better to get things done now and clean them up and add more features and reflection later so they get done#or take my time with doing every single bit thoroughly from the get go for both pragmatic reasons and marketing reasons#because it will be easier to get support and get things done faster when I’m established#but it’s easier to become established and get support if you’re thoughtful and thorough#and while I definitely believe anyone treating tutorials as a job SHOULD dedicate time and resources to breakdowns and documentations#I am in a weird in-between space where I am not being paid and cannot expect to be paid for some time#on the other hand#I don’t want to risk being paid later for bad actions now#nor do I want to risk creating bad habits as they seem to get more entrenched with audience support instead of resolved#ughhhh
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I would be so so so happy if people stopped pushing bigoted headcanons onto my favorite characters just for funsies. It's not cute and there's a million different ways to create internal conflicts within a character. I'm so sick of it. If you can't think of any way to add depth to a character beyond "what if they where HOMOPHOBIC 🤯🤯🤯" then maybe idk grow up?
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#stardew valley#sdv#sdv confessions#idk what this is abt sepcifically so ill publish it but for the record gay people writing fanfic with homophobia is 100% fine#if thats not what ur critiquing i take it back!
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i love to read meta of knives as an abuser and nod my head thoughtfully at all great points and then once the post ends i go back to considering him as my darling son who never did anything wrong ever
#let him out your honour yeah he did it all but i dont care#he had some points#so what he and his twin brother fell into and perpetuated the cycle of abuse that hurts each other#they broke out of it at the end. that has to count#“we cant go back. we cant be those brothers again. so ill kill you if you kill me. why didnt you kill me. WHY DID YOU SAVE ME”#and then at the end he did the thing vash tried to save him from anyway (disappearing forever and ever and ever and ever and )#sorry. lots of thoughts abt these tragic siblings#forever thinking about how vash threw the first stone between them#like that fuckssssss me up#i know tristamp changed that#but to me its always. knives loving him thru violence bc its the only way that makes sense. only for vash to use it on him#so of course knives lashed out. imagine realising the thing u use to protect ur brother can hurt you back just as bad#imagine killing a town of people that hurt your brother only for him to shoot you#and then you cut his arm off#not taking any critique at this time. im fully aware of the text. im just choosing to love him anyway :)#this is also why i find swap fic sooooo compelling. where vash is the dangerous one and knives is his victim#oooo u are two sides of the same coin. you could have been each other if only a few things went differently#but you could never be The Same
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Untitled Self Portrait
(+ some close-ups)
ink splatter, ink wash, and pen on paper
#art#my art#traditional art#self portrait#werewolf#this was for my advanced drawing class#i wasnt originally gonna post this one cause i really dont like doing self portraits and i wasnt rlly into this one when i finished it#but during critique people really seemed to like it so here yall go#for this one i got rlly into exploring and being representational of my identity#not gonna explain it cause itd take a lot of typing and organizing of my thoughts so ill let the piece speak for itself
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for the writer ask
💭🚦💛 💌
💭 What inspires you and your writing?
this is a real marketing major-ass answer (from your local marketing major), but i love sharing knowledge and telling stories. writing’s one of those things that’s a bit of a compulsion for me—i’m always writing something. i took a five-year break from fiction writing before i stumbled ass-first into fanfic last year, but even in those years when i was focusing on my career, i was writing guides and trainings and a ton of other stuff—just not anything fun, lol.
writing is also so cathartic. sometimes i set out to tell a specific story, but at other times, a particular emotion gets me in a vice grip and i have to put it to words before it’ll go away. my stories tend to wind up as emotional dumping grounds as a result.
i don’t write things pulled directly from my own life, but there are bits and pieces of myself and things that have happened to me scattered throughout stuff i’ve written, and usually when i’m about 75% of the way through a piece, i’ll realize it’s absolutely related to something i’m currently going through. funny how art works that way, even when you don’t intend for it to.
and occasionally i just have a fire lit under my ass about an issue and i get so hot about it that i gotta compile my thoughts. looking at you, silver snow
🚦 What sort of endings do you prefer to write: ambiguous, bad, happily ever after, etc.?
look, i would love nothing more for them girls (pick whichever girls you please) to have a happy ending where they kiss and are stupid in love for the rest of forever. i love reading those kinds of stories. but in my heart of hearts, i love an ambiguous ending. i like when there are still questions after the story ends. i like thinking about where things could go or how the characters will go on after the events of the story. like, shared space could be read as having a happy ending, but i don’t really think it is. and with the victors; the vestiges, well. you’ll see :0)
come to think of it, i’m not sure i’ve ever written a happily-ever-after, but i don’t think i’ve ever written a 100% bad ending, either. i read too many bury-your-gays stories and watched too many sad european queer coming-of-age films in my youth to ever be happy putting that kinda thing out into the world. i want to write about love with all its ugliness, but not despair or hopelessness. i think what most appeals to me about an ambiguous ending is that lingering feeling of hope. it’s not the same as the kind you get from a happily-ever-after, and something about it speaks to me.
💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?
honestly? how to take criticism. i took a creative writing class in high school where we had to read our work out loud and then receive feedback on it from the other writers in the class, and that did a lot for me. going into that class, i’d already been writing for forever and had won some little local writing contests and such, so i was a wee bit of a pretentious douche. but i’d never gotten real critique before beyond, essentially, spelling and grammar checks. it humbled me lol. it made me grow so much as a writer, and i could see where i needed to improve or where my head was wedged way too far up my own ass for others to follow. it also helped me recognize strengths i didn’t know i had, and that was huge. it’s easy to get into a self-doubt spiral when making creative work, and good, constructive criticism can do so much to help avoid that.
to this day i love critique. i like knowing what worked or didn’t work so that i can continue to improve as a writer and do better next time. did my themes land? did something really work, but another part fall flat? i’d love to know!! i try to treat everything i write as practice for the next thing, and frankly that’s helped take some of the pressure off so i don’t go into total Perfectionist Mode.
i know critique is kind of a sensitive topic in fan spaces, but i think that’s because a lot of people have gotten unsolicited criticism that is purely critical and isn’t constructive. but getting good, constructive criticism will do so much to help a person grow as a writer. it’s scary, and sometimes it hurts! writing is very personal for most people, and it stings when things aren’t received the way you think they will be. but i know i’ve grown more from having my failures pointed out (and, very importantly, having the good things about those efforts acknowledged) than anything else.
💌 Is there a favorite trope you like to write?
actually Just answered this in another ask!
#sterge.eml#foxyjeongin#thank you for playing my little game and letting me talk about stories (and about me lmao)#sorry this is kind of a long post#i talk too much#i think i sound pretentious in this ask whoops. sorry#unfortunately i kind of am. i’m working on it.#… i guess the short answer to that first question is ‘emotions and mental illness’ lol#if you follow me on twitter (not recommended as it’s just me complaining about the weather and not being able to ride my motorcycle)#you know that every time i bring up my writing in therapy my therapist rocks my shit by revealing the story is#in fact.#NOT about what i thought it was about#or more accurately it’s ALSO secretly about whatever’s going on with me in real life lmao#y’know what’s really fun? looking back at something you wrote in a manic or depressive episode and going ah. hm. interesting.#the signs were. in fact. there.#(this is in fact not fun and i don’t like it. but it always happens.)#everything i write is accidentally Also about being bipolar. no getting around that#i tend to have issues organizing my thoughts and feelings to even figure out how tf i’m feeling#(forget making any attempt at doing so verbally. i have chronic foot-in-mouth disorder and accidentally say shit i don’t mean all the time)#but writing stuff down has always helped me sort through whatever mess is going on in my noggin and i love it for that#learning how to take critique is my no. 1 piece of writing advice but no. 2 is to read#read the classics. find out why they’re classics. read weird shit. read shit you don’t like. find things you like about em anyway.#and importantly: figure out WHY you do or don’t like it#it’s funny to re-read a book i haven’t read in a long time and discover OH. that’s where i get that technique from.#or that’s where i got that idea. or that’s why i had X thing happen in this story.#or why i like this type of character or scenario#nothing’s truly new and original#we’re all an amalgamation of influences and that ruuuuules#celebrate it!!!
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did i post these? oh well too bad you can live a little and see them again
#signage posted#ocs#sour sketchs#alexander oc#claude oc#serena oc#patty oc#any critiques id be happy to hear esp w Patty and Serena as im sure their deigns will get a few more makeovers#like N.1 i think i want to change Serenas hair... i might keep the color but add a fade to black into the roots and for style m not sure#ive made enough excuses for keeping the straight hair braid shes had for this long. but ive realized thats kinda. white of me.#im trying 2 correct. anyways im probs going to go down the hair style rabbit hole and see what fits what i think she would do nd like#if anyone is reading my rambling ill take suggestions. its at least a good place to start .#also patty im just still trying to get comfortable drawing her from more angles. i really wanna keep the shadowy eye stuff but sigh#well see the only thing is ik the boys are good enough
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haven't finished the game yet so I feel bad making an opinion on it already but im a little Annoyed that in bg3 it appears that each companion has two endings, and they're either the 'morally good' ending or the 'morally bad' ending, and it's very obvious the writers want you to chose the good one. that's boring.
obviously there are limitations to scope for this game but 🤷♂️ hopefully im proven wrong once I get closer to the end
#merlin.txt#some of the companion writing has been kind of shit in act 3 im gonna b honest 😭#i already have Opinions (negative) on astarions quest choices but ill wait to talk abt it. pple r defensive abt any ending critique for asta#so far i think the most interesting choice was wylls. like at Least it was a quandary#idk. i just find a lot of morality in this game sometimes Very Boring. but thats a long stabding issue with a lot of rpgs so. w/e#honestly i think my most major dislike rn is the direction theyre taking gales ending. no spoilers but he deserves better lmao
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i think you might just need to go outside
you're the one who sent three anonymous messages to a stranger on the internet about a reddit sub full of ao3 fans about something she posted two years ago anon so idk maybe I'm not the one who needs to log off
#further rebuttals: you don't know me or my life and you're an anonymous stranger so??? what do I care what you think#I literally came off last week from a six-day vacation and I go birding regularly. I read and critique fanfic bc I love it#it's a genuine passion of mine and I take it seriously. and that includes criticizing#I do spend a lot of time online but at least I don't send condescending and presumptuous messages to perfect strangers on the internet#implying that they should be embarrassed about something based on the judgement of a group of people whose moral standards#they truly could not give less of a shit about#I think you may be more invested in this than me anon. I will go through my week pleased by this news#you though. seem bothered. find peace#also work on your ableism yeah? calling people weird (derogatory) and telling them to go outside isn't where it's at#best case scenario it just doesn't work. worst case scenario you look like a piece of shit to a chronically ill or agoraphobic person#and as established. you literally do not know me or my life#Anonymous#asks
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havent watched the episode that supposedly addresses starscreams trauma yet but apparently mae catt wrote it and now im actively dreading completing this show 😭
#like no judgement of them specifically lord knows i enjoyed cyberverse sometimes#i just dont think i can take ill be able to take an episode like this seriously if its penned by a self-confessed megstar shipper 💀#this show is SO good when its fluff of no substance and the terrans are grabbing adults for their found family collection#not so much when it decides to be serious and tries to offer a searing critique of a characters actions or commentary on a real life issue
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the urge to respond to critique about portrayal of unpolitically correct attitudes or phrases or actions or whatever in regards to mental illness with "what if I told you that it's not my job to tell my readers that when my character says stuff like 'my binge eating disorder is not as bad as my brother's bipolar + PTSD combination; he has to win at something' that it's Bad and the Wrong Attitude to have when it's largely a tongue in cheek joke about living with mental illness and watching the people you love experience a different flavor that is also worse
#one of my characters tells another character that her grandmother committed suicide#and the critiquer said that I should have said died by suicide#because that is now the “correct” way to talk about suicide#and... I know that#I work in the psychology field#and i'm aware of how speech impacts perception#however#my character does not care about this distinction#and honestly neither do I#it doesn't matter to me whether or not you say “committed suicide” or “died by suicide”#and I have had someone close to me kill themselves#it fucking sucks but no amount of “died by suicide” takes away the reality of the action being performed by the person dying#imo it's a cheap trick that purports to discern the complexities of suicide in that people who do it aren't fully to blame for it#but it doesn't! that conversation needs to happen in full without shying away from the reality that the person did choose to die!#I just... I don't know#i want to portray life as it is not as we wish it to be and I'm not writing a message book about mental illness#also this critiquer comes from the YA space and this book is adult and I fear that the gearing towards YA generally meaning a more actively#condemning attitude towards “problematic” attitudes regarding characters that doesn't have to be present in adult fiction#dealing with someone else's mental illness for years and years is taxing and takes a toll on you and that's problematic sometimes#but you know what! everything is!#/this person had a lot of good things to say but there is something so blah about this in particular#“say die by suicide”#no#anyway
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can't stress enough that you guys don't have to answer every single ask you get. in fact you can just delete them. especially if they are causing you psychic damage.
#x#re: last reblog and that one post that critiques the idea of not responding to anon hate#if someone is trying to bait you in your asks then delete it you are not obligated to answer every stranger's questions#especially if they're extremely fucking probing questions#and if u get hate its better to just let that shit go by deleting it#i cant think of a single person who has benefited in any way from responding to hate.#it doesnt make you look bad like that one post implies but it definitely exacerbates your own negative reaction to it#at random sometimes ill get a guy sending me a bunch of hate at once and guess what. nobody ever knows bc i delete it#and as a result i dont remember what the guy even said in the first place. out of sight out of mind#but back to the baiting shit - ppl bait me sometimes too and its so easy to just delete an ask taking ur comments in bad faith#very few ppl will continue to take ur shit in bad faith so if u just delete the annoying anons then it doesnt become a bigger issue
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I know Miguel would be so sick of my ass bc the way I would call him mean every time he’d try to even SLIGHTLY reprimand me,…..,,
#I do not take instructions or reprimanding well#so every time he gives me a critique or something I’m instantly telling him he’s the meanest person I’ve ever met#which then leads to him asking me if I /really/ wanna see mean and—#this man. is haunting me every waking second.#I’ve already sped read like 25k words of fics for him in like two hours#this is. a sickness. an illness even. no cure but him.#—in store chit chat! 🍫
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I will not live past 40.
(A poem, by me, about accepting being sick.)
I will not live past 40.
I say these words with love
Cause I know you need it.
You need to feel reassured
My mortality isn't a vendetta.
Because I love you,
And I love your attempts
To try to make me feel better.
I hate hurting your feelings when I say
"There is no getting better"
Because you try and try to find
A solution; A goal; Something;
Anything for me to look forward to.
And I say them with grief
Knowing I will spend years
Helping others grieve a body not yet dead,
Because I have already laid it to rest;
In that coffin of a hospital bed,
In the spaces between my books,
And figures and toys,
That all take up space on my shelves;
What I can piece together of my personality,
So I can lay myself bare before you.
I say this with malice
As you try to convince yourself
you played no part in the rot consuming me.
Like there was an attempt to save
This body built of your mistakes.
You refuse to look me in the eye.
It’s enough of an admittance
for me to feel powerful between us for once.
Using my condition as a weapon
Against those who claimed weaponization
When I could not even move.
I say them with understanding
As I understand you don't know yet
What it means to die.
I hate to be the first;
I don't want to be the reason
You must learn about death.
I don't want to feel
Your small hands in mine as I try to explain
What it will mean when I'm gone.
Milestones and birthdays and graduations,
All missed and forgotten.
Anniversaries spent recounting your childhood,
You can't seem to remember a time I wasn't sick.
I say it with acceptance;
As I know who I am,
And all I've loved,
And all I'll leave behind.
In that grief and malice and love;
In those shelves and toys and little hands in mine.
I accept this rotting corpse.
I will show it love.
I will show it grief.
I will show it malice.
I will show it understanding.
I will show it acceptance.
#poetry#art#my art#my post#this is a very sleepy and hardly edited poem#but it was very important to me#i talked a bit with someone about things about what happens before i die that made me scared#bc i wasnt actually all that scared of dying#and they told me i was allowed to be upset and to mourn myself#it made me feel content because i tried really hard to not let it bother me#so ya#very slay of me#chronic illness#mortality#idfk what to take this#take it#if you critique it ur ableist#kidding. kind of.#jjammy art
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