#it's wild man

[the-final-sif]

There's an anon siting around in my drafts that I'm still not sure on if I want to respond to for a lot of reasons, but one part of that anon was claiming "no ones saying "dont ever touch darker topics and if you do youre a criminal u gross adults and your porn""

And whenever I scroll through that in my drafts I have to stop and laugh because on one of my popular posts where I literally just said "hey teenagers I understand that you want to look at porn and whatever I'm not a cop but also literally do not lie to real people about your age online to engage in sexual stuff with them that's super gross and illegal"

There was an entire reblog chain I had to block of people telling me that post was bad an awful because I wasn't shaming teenagers for looking at porn, and that nobody should ever look at porn because all porn inherently exploits women and children and is immoral. There was another chain claiming that all porn is harmful to everyone, gets you addicted, rots your brain, etc. There was one person calling me a child abuser for saying "hey teens I'm aware that y'all are gonna look at porn and that's not my business, please just don't lie to real people".

Like, to be clear, this wasn't even talking about dark topics at all. It was literally porn in the vaguest possible sense because I wasn't about to yell at teenagers for being horny. That wasn't even the point of the post. The point of the post was that teenagers needed to not lie to other human beings about their age for sex because that's bad.

It's just hilarious that someone could be so sheltered as to think "there's no one saying that". There's so many people saying that. The a03 article that discusses anti-fans shows specific examples, including one of an actual literally adult calling a 16 year old a pedo for being attracted to a teenage fictional character (Bakugou Katsuki somewhat hilariously). The teenager in question literally clarified that they were the same age as the character, and the adult continued to call them a pedo because in their world view, there's no reason someone should ever be attracted to a teenager. Including "I am also a teenager".

IDK it's very funny to me to have someone in my inbox claiming "nobody says that" when there are reblog chains on my posts of people literally saying that.

[lilacthebooklover]

i beg your pardon?

[fae-koon]

hi. ya girlie just woke up from a nap after being all over the fuckin place looking for shoes last minute. finally found a pair and they were mismatched in the box ?????? w/e it's fine i bought them and they fit idc. they're children's shoes too. as usual lol.

[rockybloo]

This is just a dumbass Rocky Ramble post please keep scrolling but man oh man

I am never going to get over how Beanstalked is one of my stories with SO many colorful supporting characters for people to ask questions about ( especially in the Briar Patch crew) but the only other character (that isn't even a supporting character and is practically just an NPC) that gets near Fabled Five amounts of repeat attention about them over on Deviantart...is the giant's wife

And before people view this post as me complaining about not getting enough questions about other Beanstalked characters I need you to understand that I def do get questions about them (AND I'm totally fine with there being a lack of questions, please do not feel like I am asking for more interactions-this is just a post about an observation I've been noticing for a DECADE) but NOT on the same level as random comments or messages or even favorites on Deviantart as the giant's wife from the older pages.

And when I say attention for them I mean on the scale of me STILL getting notifications of people licking the old pages of Beanstalked from the FIRST comic of it I posted on Deviantart WAY back in the 2010s.

It's HIGHKEY unsettling to me I won't lie to y'all. It's a big reason why I've like...held off on touching or making any big and tiny ocs. I finally got over it around last year after discovering the cool and fun and wholesome g/t community over here and finally felt comfortable enough to create Tulip and Montel this year but I gotta be real man.

This is derailing at this point but somebody should have really warned me about the fetish curse before I started working on Beanstalked dude. Like-I've learned and seen some things I wish I could unsee.

Did you know there was a fetish for genies? Or long hair? Or Pinocchio nose growth? BECAUSE I HAD TO LEARN THAT STUFF THE HARD WAY MAN-

I'M OUT HERE BEING ON THE LOOK OUT FOR PEOPLE INTO FEET AND VORE OR PREGNANCY AND INFLATION BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE IMMEDATE "ALRIGHT I KNOW WHAT THESE ARE I KNOW HOW TO AVOID THEM" BUT PEOPLE CAME OUT THE WOODWORK WITH VERY SPECIFIC INTERESTS I DIDN'T EVEN PICK UP ON AT FIRST

IT'S ESPECIALLY HARD WHEN IT'S ATTENTION FOR AN OC THAT OVERLAPS WITH A FETISH PEOPLE GOT THAT YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW NOTHIN' ABOUT BECAUSE THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I'VE MISREAD A BOOST OF QUESTIONS ABOUT AN OC FOR GENUINE INTEREST IN THEM

OH

OH MY LORDY

[firephoenix23]

Like I literally have second hand embarrassment for Vox after seeing what Alastor ACTUALLY is like in a rivalry.

Like homie wishes he could be that close to Alastor 😂😂

[lackadaisycal-art]

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

[raycatzdraws]

Wolfie and Four friendship appreciation doodles! They're shared secrets besties! I hope Four's distrust of the shadow crystal doesn't drive anything between them. Wild found his way into this compilation with a force. It seems I can't draw Wolfie and not include him too!

[0booboozefool0]

This might be the most self indulgent thing I’ve ever drawn

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Anyone else excited for botw2 and Ganondorf??

[adobe-outdesign]

Muppet fact of the day: One of the Muppet show's pilot episodes was called "The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence", but the Muppets are owned by Disney now and Disney really doesn't like the word "sex" so they insist on just calling it "the Muppet Show Pilot"

anyway reblog this forbidden image of Jim Henson in front of the Sex and Violence title card to make Disney mad

[davidtennan-t]

David Tennant: I'm so old and fragile, what if people can hear my bones creak, I definitely won't be as zoomy, me peepaw now

Also David Tennant:

[snailtrain]

happy end-of-year! :> hope it was a good one ♥

[insertcoolnameherethanks]

kids I used to babysit are getting engaged, and here I am eating chocolate and imagining fictional characters.

[inkskinned]

it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.

yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.

right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.

the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.

these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.

it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.

we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.

secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)

whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.

they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")

and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."

i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.

one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.

i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.

[mizgnomer]

You simply cannot have too much David Tennant

[salamispots]

heard it was year of the dragon : 0 also been trying to learn clip studio more