#looks like the inked block

[nobrashfestivity]

Edvard Munch, Women on the Beach, 1898

[inkskinned]

no, but really, we need to talk about the casual objectification that has become the fallback discourse of the internet: if you're pretty and dressed nicely, you're a slut. and if you're even vaguely outside of their body standard, you're fucking disgusting.

too-frequently, people position sex workers as being "the problem". they sneer you're addicted to pornography, you don't know what a real woman looks like. but real women are in pornography. the real bodies on display are not the issue here: the issue is that other people feel extremely confident when commenting on someone's physique.

2000's super-thin is slowly worming its way back into the public ideal. recently i saw someone get told to "go for a run", despite the fact she was on the thinner side of average. not that it would ever be appropriate to say that: but it's kind of like sticker shock when you see it. people think that is fat? holy shit. do they just have no idea about things?

but what are you going to do about it? that's the problem, right. because chances are - you're a normal person. we can say normalize carrying fat on your body, but we are not the billion-dollar diet industry. we are not the billion-dollar fashion industry. we are just, like. people. who are trying to make content on the internet, without being treated shittily.

as someone who has been on both sides of things: you are treated better when you are thin and pretty. this is statistically correct. i am not saying that you cannot be bullied for being thin; i'm saying there are objective institutional biases against certain bodytypes. there are videos of men and women who lost weight all saying: i now know for a fact exactly how much worse you're treated. in the comments, some asshole inevitably says something akin to you deserved to be dehumanized when you were fat.

which means that ... the easiest thing to do is be pretty and thin. it is the path of least resistance, because of course it is, because any time you post a picture of yourself without a thigh gap, someone immediately comments something like you need to try a diet.

the other half is also dehumanizing though, huh, just in a different way. when i put on makeup and nice clothes, i am told i slept my way to the top as a professional. do you know how many women in STEM have told me they purposefully dress to "unimpress" because they already struggle to be taken seriously and if they're ever considered pretty - it for some reason takes away from their authority.

so they make it seem like it's your fault. you, existing in a body - it's your fault! if you didn't want shitty comments, don't have a body. they position us against each other like chess pieces; vying for male attention we don't even need.

and i can be an authority on this unless you think i'm fat and unattractive. when i am pretty and thin, i'm an activist. when i am just a normal person who makes a good point: i am immediately dismissed. nobody fucking believes you if you're not seen as attractive. you literally lose value. you cease to exist.

but the whole time, it feels like - is anyone actually grounded the fuck in reality? the line of "pretty and thin" keeps shifting. nobody seems to understand what "a normal weight" even looks like, because it's not something that exists - you cannot tell a person's health by looking at their body. even if you think you could tell that, even if you're sure a person is dangerously overweight - people are not your dolls. they do not need to be dressed up or displayed properly to soothe your aesthetics. you aren't concerned for them, you're stealing their agency. you don't get to say if they're "allowed" to take pictures and post them on the internet - you don't get to tell them how to exist.

people hide behind "the obesity epidemic" without any actual qualifications. they crow things about "normalizing unhealthiness".

but it's bullshit. i have visible abs. there is a pair of parallel lines on my body, even when i'm relaxed; where my obliques meet my abdominal wall. i am proud of this because it means i'm strong, because i overcame an eating disorder only to be ripped as fuck. it is genetic and physical luck that i even get any definition, i'm pleased as punch.

but it does mean that my abdominal wall sticks out a little bit. the other day i posted a video of myself dancing, and, for a moment, my shirt slipped. you could see a little bit of my stomach. i was cartwheeling to the floor. moments before this, i'd had my foot over my head.

a guy slid into my DMs. a row of vomiting emojis prefaced: you should really lose some weight before you think about dancing.

i stared at it for a long time. there was a time when i would have been triggered by this, where it would have encouraged me to starve myself. i would have ignored the fact i'm flexible, agile, good at jumping: i would have lost the weight for a stranger's passing comment. i would have found myself and my body fucking disgusting.

and for what? to please what? because why? so that he can exist in this world without an unchallenged eyeball? what would my self-hatred even accomplish? usually i write paragraphs. obviously. on this particular occasion, in this body i've been at war with for ages: i just felt exhausted.

it shouldn't be even worth saying. it shouldn't be hard to explain. all of this emotional turmoil when he cannot even comprehend the most basic truth: i am not an object on display for him.

[blue-cat-shitposts]

You youngsters have it easy, with your good 3d models and hot voices for the ink demons. Only the '17 kids remember when the Ink Demon used to look like THIS:

[thegracefulwillow]

Pandora Hearts month day 1: Coat

@i-prefer-the-term-antihero

[wormgremlin]

Final designs that I will be carving:

And design mockups:

Trying to set up for pre-orders now. First batch should be ready to go first week of October. Unsure how international orders will go, so let me know if you have trouble! I'll add the link on to this post when it's up and running.

I will also take orders through DMs with payment through venmo, PayPal, and zelle.

Update on the update: webbed site caused me nothing but stress! Google form instead!

[reel-fear]

MIKE BLOCKED ME ON TWITTER FOR ROASTING HIS DUMBASS RESPONSE TO THE GRAPHIC NOVEL STUFF!!

grown ass man scared of the 19-year-old queer being mean to him over his public meltdown more at 8.

[wouldntyoulichentoknow]

hello

[fishymom-art]

Metal & Ink Extra 7

“METAL”

(it’s penelope talking, srry, i accidentally made it as if talyn’s saying it XD)

[apotheotic-cravings]

Ok fuck. I know only post digital art but I just tried gouache for the first time and look at how cute this little motherfucker is.

[snuurp]

my local craft store has stuff for linoleum block prints now! i just tried it out this december and it is so much fun

my first stamp was the goat in the bottom left, and i think my latest was the bird in the middle :) i love how the goat, deer, bones n stuff, and bird turned out, and the centipede is definitely growing on me the more i look at it

[inklingofadream]

every couple weeks I get a nextdoor update from someone saying they heard an explosion. I am absolutely positive that someone nearby has a really crappy car or something. Every time someone comments "I heard it too, pretty sure it was a car backfiring" and the erstwhile poster insists it was a huge boom that shook their house. Based on the absence of news coverage, every single time it is a car, or a firework, or someone dropping something heavy. It is never an explosion.

[fuckingwhateverdude]

warped perception

[solradguy]

Girl ALERT 

[splashinkling]

Last Lines Tag

thanks @nikkywrites for the tag! the following comes from Memories with the Witch Log 1,500

Percius pursed his lips. He held his palm over Lyzandir’s forehead, then checked the pulse at his neck with two fingers. “He looks fine to me,” he said. “Maybe a doctor should look at him. Or maybe he’ll manage on his own.” He glanced over at Eryn, who fidgeted in place. He reached his hand out to hers, taking it softly. Startled, her eyes jolted to him. “I’m worried, too, Eryn. He’s a good friend of mine. I’ll see to it that Lyzandir comes back ten times stronger.” He smirked with a wink.

tagging @sleepy-night-child, @ettawritesnstudies, @the-finch-address, and an open tag for anyone to hop on

[nahwe]

oh wow i did an art hi hello

i saw a few upside down!eddie headcanons going around a while back and i really like the idea so i drew Him

[cs300]

repeating “its okay to block people for being annoying but harmless its okay to block people for being annoying but harmless its o” like a mantra lest i go insane