#some kind of psychological reason?

[sciderman]

(Idk if someone asked this already) since we’re on the topic of gender

sci what is gender to you and how do you see it in you and how you express it in your art?? (Just a young queer artist who wants some light shined upon them 🥺)

i 'unno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[thenixkat]

like? Falin didn't enjoy being at magic school. She had all of one friend who was a teacher that continues to act like she's not a grown ass woman half the time capable of making her own decisions. SHe skipped class most of the time to go hang out in a cave. Her classmates frienquently shit talked about her in hearing range. Her brother who she loves a whole lot who gets her better than just about anyone else that she hadn't seen in years turned up emaciated and filthy and was surprised that she decided to go back with him when he was just dropping by to say hello.

But sure, he forced her to drop out of school and hang out with him being near homeless and starving and working odd jobs often without pay. Clearly, it wasn't like she could have left him at any point it was not like he had any means of keeping her with him against her will.

[wickjump]

grrr cross whump… grrrr making him suffer… grrrr giving him extreme amounts of injury and blood soaking his bones… grrr…

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

wanna ask how you feel about the eridan bpd headcanon/theory(?? not sure what to call it!) you're so good at your character analysis and i'd love to see your outlook on it

Since I don't have a degree or any formal training in psychology, I feel deeply uncomfortable diagnosing characters. I've made an autism joke before but only because I'm on the spectrum. He's definitely traumatized and anxious, but I mean those as descriptors of his behavior rather than capital-D Diagnoses. I try to focus on those when I can - the cause and effect of cognition, self-image, and behavior - and those factors may very well match up with DSM criteria, but I try not to touch an actual diagnosis with a ten foot pole unless the author has explicitly stated that X character has Y condition.

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Interesting. Don’t necessarily think I’m autistic but I have more going on than just ADHD and I’m not sure what that is.

[bilbao-song]

Ahhh! I wanna say what they opened the show with but I can't!

!!!!!!!!! >:-) four days...................!!!!!!

[dankovskaya]

Once u notice that 99% of white americans (maybe just americans in general) operate at all times as if native americans don't even exist anymore it's impossible to stop seeing it. Like. Even if they intellectually Know that is not true at all they would never assume that a native person is in the room with them, that a particular audience they are addressing could include native people, that anyone they pass on the street could possibly be native. And because so many of the dominant cultural images of native americans revolve around like, "humorously" offensive outdated Americana (sports team mascots, old westerns, pocahontas, novelty indian statues at rest stop gas stations and shit) and actual native communities don't have enough cultural influence on their own fucking land to provide widespread, self-determined representations to counteract that (or even to convince people to get rid of the bad shit!), people just internalize the idea that anti-native racism is more gauche or ridiculously antiquated than it is genuinely harmful to any real living people.

[esleep]

i am so tired of being out of shape but i have no idea how to fix this. someone should invent exercise that doesn't make me want to shoot myself in the head.

[yanderespamton78]

OC :D !!

CW : mild body horror (mushrooms growing through skin, not gorey and not the focus of the image but kinda eugh)

WOW!! AN OC!!! WOH

(ugh the colours look so much brighter on my drawing tablet like theyre meant to be desaturated but she is practically black and white uuughghghhh :(((( sidenote the pupils were an afterthought because you couldnt tell she was looking down at the snail)

okokok now im gonna ramble about this oc

Willow

She/Her

Aroace

i actually made her right when i first got into art and she was very dear to me for a while, but i kinda forgot about her and i havent drawn her in over a year. i have some older drawings of her at the end of the post (not letting you skip my ramblings).

So Willow lives in the forest by herself, and has done for as long as she remembers (dont ask how she got there (i havent thought of that yet)) which also means she has never had any need for communication so is completely mute. And im not sure what exactly Willow is?? but she is immortal. BUT!! you see those mushrooms growing through her skin on her cheek, neck, eye and hand? they are the only thing that limits her lifetime. she has this disease thingy that causes mushrooms to grow in her body and occasionally through her skin. She lives until the disease kills her, which takes a few hundred years. i actually made a diagram of all the places where the mushrooms grow a bit ago (down below with the old art). the mushrooms on her neck nearly killed her, the mushroom in her left eye means shes blind, and the one on her finger can make it harder to grip and use her hand in general. she has an animal companion, though this companion has changed throughout the years. it started off being a frog, then it became a swarm of butterflies, now its a snail? its probably going to stay a snail tho. I honestly cant remember why she is in the forest alone, i feel like she did have some reason but i forgot it. Prolly something basic like keeping the animals happy by feeding them mushrooms or smth idk. also she moves kinda weird?? i cant describe exactly what im thinking but almost kinda jerky and doll like. like Cyn from murder drones kinda. the same weird loose doll feel.

old drawings VVV (from 2022-ish oh god theyre so bad)

the one on the left is the first ever drawing of her (it was just a sketch to practise and art style and then uh. smth happened)

the one on the left is the first proper design i had of her and the one on the right is the aforementioned frog companion (he was called wizzy)

that image ^^^ was drawn in 2023. i was trying to get back into art and i wanted to make willow again because i thought she was cool. theres some writing that you cant read but its not too important. mostly diagrams

[finitevoid]

me: descendants is camp

the logical part of my brain: descendants was created to sell toys to small children and to gain the brand loyalty of teenagers to sell the novels and other merchandise. goodness has been turned from a moral quality into a hierarchical social caste. the main (heterosexual) couple gets engaged at the end, at ~17/18, which is some extremely catholic child bride shit

me: its camp

[gendercriticalthinking]

The way that my friend felt disappointed when he found out as a kid that an androgynous character he idolized was a woman because he quote "couldn't relate to the character anymore" and the way that the creator of Celeste """discovered he was non-binary""" because he wrote a female character that he was able to relate to are branches off of the same vein of misogyny I think

[swankpalanquin]

for two seconds i was like, maybe i could go to church (there are multiple churches here of the same diocese i grew up in and they are close to where im having lunch) and then was like, i really am crazy lol

[jestiamy]

??? how in the world does anyone come out of jekyll and hyde with this

[boyruggeroii]

Has nobody ever written a fanfiction or pastiche in which Oliver's father is forced for some reason to raise his own legitimate son and thus deal for once with the full consequences of his own actions

[astrxealis]

i really want to write a song one day

[orcelito]

New way to kill someone in a dream. Literally ripping their soul out of their body and crushing it in my fingers??? Like ok