#straight need not apply

[un-pearable]

ngl one of the most useful things i’ve internalized from doing art online is never tell people what to criticize. don’t preemptively apologize for things or point out where you think you fumbled, it’s just priming people to notice minor issues that might not actually matter and hit you where you’re sensitive and throw you off your game. don’t tell people your weak points. if it’s a genuine problem they’ll point it out

[wildbluesorbit]

How does one simply…

to then...

[thefloatingstone]

I really want to draw something meaty and put some characters into The Situations but I am dealing with a double whammy of art block and some REALLY insane migraine/Sinus issues the past 3 or 4 days.

So all I managed was a quick Solana. I wanted to give her a cool leg prosthetic but then I didn't really draw her legs sdjfdsjkfsdhf So that's the level of cognitive function I am dealing with at the moment

Fun fact! I really dislike a lot of the female turian design! So I just... ignored the parts I disliked lol.

[idon-twannabeperceived]

Me: *looks up x method/ tip for curly nd coily hair*

Results: 83 videos of women with the thinnest and straightest hair u've ever seen "here's why x method doesn't work and it RUINED MY HAIR😨🚫🚫"

Me: agarrame q la mato

[medicalunprofessional]

‘ My skin is metallic now, no longer an elegant powder blue ‘

- King Crimson. Lyrics to “Dig Me”

[gooopy]

LOOK AT MY SELF INSERT BOY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cringe is dead i can do whatever i want FOREVER and that includes making a character to beat scout tf2 to death with my own two fists

[demonic-shadowlucifer]

(TL;DR: demanding that people reblog your posts (especially serious) and telling people that they're bad people if they don't reblog isn't going to make people reblog your stuff. and you should actually stop reblogging stuff that contains guilt-trippy like garbage this).

[aroacesigma]

love when characters are so transgender that you can straight up justify your headcanon all the time . thank you asagiri for accidentally making so many of your characters transgender

[phosphorus-noodles]

i think... au oli's mom would be a bird lady. like a crane or something. and his father would be a shapeshifter bc royal lineage powers but he's Also he'd be a big panda man y'know. like father like son. his dad met a pretty bird lady in the village and fell in love with her so he made her his queen and they're in love. can anyone hear me

[that-left-turn]

Caryl fans on twitter being racist against Danai and as usual the TWD fandom is silent. We have to clean up our house. We cannot have people like thebookofsilvershana and queenoftwd representing those of us who are not like this. When we allow it and we are silent we are basically saying we agree. I’m ashamed of our shipmates not doing better.

As I've said before, I'm not on twitter and I also have no idea who these people are. I have several long posts addressing racism but whenever I write anything on the topic, there's an avalanche of asks from Richonne fans telling me to shut up. (I can't speak up against something and be quiet about it at the same time.) If you're on twitter, why don't you lead the way? Start a Caryl discussion on racism over there, like I've tried to do over here.

For the record, I don't support:

racism, against Danai or anyone else.

ageism, against Melissa or anyone else.

misogyny or sexism, whether it's a real person like Angela Kang (who gets regularly tarred and feathered by fans who've misunderstood how-it-works in TV production) or a fictional character like Lori.

There's a lot of that in the fandom, women hating on other women, or not understanding that their eagerness to win an imaginary "ship war" enables TPTB to disregard the female audience's concerns and wants for the show and the ship. To them, those fans are 'rabid hysterics' who only think with their 'soft moist parts' 🙄 I know some people want to believe that TWDU is a kind place where everybody gets treated like cherished family, but the reality of it is that it's a business with a marketing ploy based on the show's concept of 'found family.'

The horror space is controlled by white men. It's hard to break into as a female writer because your love and knowledge of its tropes get constantly questioned. You're supposed to stick to 'woman centered' shows and not ruin the genre with "wokeness" and your "feminist agenda." Men need to have a safe space where they can be manly men and nobody calls their brand of masculinity 'toxic.'

TWDU fans trying to one-up each other in ship wars by praising men who write their female characters as shallow and manipulative won't turn the show into must-see TV. Pretending that billing and title don't matter, or that positioning the male character and actor as the focal point of the show doesn't cast the female lead as the sidekick won't make the show any better or give fans Caryl canon. Flattering mediocre men won't encourage them to give fans what they want. It only validates these men's POV that their take on the characters and the story is 'rich and rewarding.'

Zabel, Nicotero and Gimple are responsible for whether or not Caryl are friends, whether there's shipbait, or if viewers have to hunt for subtextual clues regarding the characters' emotional state. That's where everybody's attention should be focused, on the show itself and the people men who call the shots.

[xpoolboy]

the sapnap fans on twitter are trying to act like purpled immediately leaving when sapnap shows up is "an example of healthily setting a boundary" and not what it actually is which is "leaving the area because that guys fucking annoying"

its crazy how dteam fans go back and forth on hating violently on purpled or hyping him up as a perfect streamer depending on if he his most recent dteam interaction. like i remember when you bitches were hating on him for calling dream out don't act like you love him!! like they see an example of someone who used to be good friends with sapnap being visibly annoyed at him and his actions and go "yes this is great to show that couriway is being unreasonable!"

[playingplayer2]

Took a whole bunch of pictures of my mask in my back yard today (shortly before being hit by a thunderstorm) and then promptly peeled the paint off my mask because it's had the same design since like December lmao

[watermelinoe]

i'm also a bisexual woman and i feel exactly the same way you do re: penises. i actually found your post really validating lol

i think attraction takes a lot of forms and it's really not just about genitalia - which is why it's so frustrating when transactivists go on abt ~genital preferences~ as if intimacy doesn't involve the whole body. if you somehow mister potato head slapped a vagina onto a male body, lesbians are not suddenly going to see him as a viable sex partner like the rest of him isn't there??

on the other hand, i can find the rest of the male body attractive up until the peen and balls are involved and my attraction shrivels up, and i'm still bi. maybe there's a psychological reason for my aversion, maybe not, in the end it doesn't really matter bc i was only hurting myself by trying to like it

lesbians aren't attracted to male voices, male hands, male stature

i am genuinely attracted to males and i like being bisexual now that i understand there's nothing i have to fix about my bisexuality

[6ebe]

Applying for 50 jobs within 12 months and not getting a single offer is almost an accomplishment woah I’m so talented x

[inkedmyths]

It's not necessarily a knock on ppl but man there's something about being in a fandom and seeing people who's lineup of favorite ships are all the most. Like. Hetbait ships? You know what I mean?

And it's like one or two you can go "yeah I get it, there's at least some canon backing to it" but when that's all they're into and it leaves you going like. Where's your imagination dude these are all so... basic. Like it's not even necessarily that they're straight ships it's that they're the most surface level things you could come up with. And some of this is dependent on the way they treat their ships ofc but still

And its not even that they come across as anti-queer (at least outwardly) its just the general feeling that the idea of something that isn't a heterosexual romance even crosses their minds. They live in a little vanilla bubble, and you're watching them floating along, wondering how they can't be so so bored

[essektheylyss]

Not gonna lie, both vindicating but also deeply sad that every single literary magazine I've looked at recently, having visited those site in the past, has edited their submission requirements to specify that AI work will not be considered.

And at the same time, I'm extremely fearful of how many writers are going to give up writing when it becomes impossible to tell AI from real anymore, and markets are utterly saturated with content to the point that getting anything published is nearly impossible as scammers try to make some quick change.

I imagine it wouldn't be worth it in the long run as a scam, because it doesn't exactly pay to write these days even prior to this, so it may then die out within a couple of years, though that might be optimistic given the plagiarism that makes it into the Amazon self-publishing realm. But even still, I do worry that in the meantime it's going to push writers out and force already struggling lit mags to shut down, and I'm so, so worried about it.