#theyre progressive actually

[blackkatdraws2]

I have a lot of leftover drawings in my gallery. [Blank Scripts AU]

[Content Warning: Images below contain Gore, Death, and Disturbing/Uncomfortable Imagery]

I find it a bit cute knowing they start out as crazy and then slowly settle into something calmer and relatively healthier after learning to adapt to each other's lust-turned-love. [Stanley did it first but hey :3]

[infernal-lamb]

Hey, I've seen your drawings from Neves. They are brilliant. I like her a lot, and are you writing fanfic about her?

Ahh thank you!!! That's really flattering fkljgfjf....It's always a pleasant surprise that people like Neves :'-) (and I love when I get an excuse to post my doodles of her and the Lamb lol)

I am in the works of trying to write a cotl fanfic abt this specific au (I call it The Apostate & The Martyr in my head lol), but writing doesn't come as easily as drawing to me SIGH. I've actually written quite a bit, but the problem is putting all these random excerpts together to make something coherent LOL. But yes, the fic is intended to be the story of The Lamb and Neves' friendship amidst the brutality and terror of the Lands of the Old Faith, how to deal with the consequences of their choices, and the mutual alienation they experience in their positions....as silly as that sounds lol. It's very self-indulgent! I just liked the concept of the "Outsider" POV, so to speak, being subjected to the sort of normalized violence that exists in cotl. Though, I might end up just making comics if I can't pan out this fanfic well enough!

[tangledinink]

has the fam done anything with the lab or swannie's room since he's been gone? do they go in there and dust?

Mikey has a habit of sitting in Donnie's room when he's feeling a bit sad. Leo spends a good deal of time in Donnie's lab trying to dig through his files in an attempt to figure out what he was doing at the lake in the first place. And Splinter fusses over making sure things don't become dusty or sad.

Also-- Donnie does still visit every now and again! It's pretty rare, as Donnie is only 'lucid' enough to consider a field trip maybe once a week to every other week, and while he can leave his lake during the night, it does make him highly anxious and stresses him out a lot. As a result, 'field trips' mean that rather than having a full day with Donnie, they'll usually get a few frantic, high-energy hours before he essentially just... needs to go back to the Lake to lay down and recover.

(But damn, kinda worth it to get to see his Lab again though...)

[raspberrywiskey]

fave pete and billy moments comp. i miss them so so much ❤

[wellthatschaotic]

whenever i see someone who is like "yes but [x] isnt as oppressed as [y]!!" or "[x] is widely accepted now!!" as a way to like. disregard queer people's experiences. i'm just like. have you been outside? have you been in the real world?

[iratusmus]

having entirely too much fun with old outfit requests

[slutdge]

i didnt even wanna answer this ask but im tired of being afraid to stand my ground when people say things like this. this is kinda the perfect example of what i was talking about tbh like. i made a calm post validly criticizing the psychiatric abuse i had to go through explaining how im trying to move on and heal and accept that what happened to me was wrong and this response is just "take your meds psycho 🙄" this is my exact problem w how psychiatry is practiced so harmfully. everyone who dares criticize psychiatry in any way is just crazy. putting the word "respectfully" infront of a sentence doesnt magically make this not a super rude thing to say to someone, especially a stranger. hope that helps.

[lord-squiggletits]

Thinking about IDW Optimus again and the fandom's aversion to even acknowledging he exists bc he's a cop or whatever and like. Most of the time people literally just replace him in fic with some white bread knockoff archivist/librarian, not even bothering to keep in IDW OP's personality (which just bolsters my theory that the problem isn't him being a cop the problem is that he's too multifaceted but I digress).

And it's annoying because you could totally write IDW Optimus as not a cop while still keeping his canon personality. You just have to realize that the reason IDW OP became a cop in the first place is because his formative experiences when he was young shaped him to basically have two priorities: 1. To help people and 2. To do it by being on the ground actively doing something about the bad things happening to people.

IDW OP would not be a fucking librarian or archivist because even though those are noble pursuits that can help people and change the world, and Optimus is educated/smart enough for the profession, he wouldn't be satisfied just teaching people or spreading information about activism or social-historical studies or whatever. He's a mech of action: he needs to be doing things right now, in front of him, to people he sees/interacts with in his own eyes, improving society with concrete actions rather than indirect action or abstract inspiration.

So basically the alternate job ideas I can think of for IDW Optimus are something like being a firefighter (or any first responder really) or even whatever the equivalent would be to international charity organizations, those ones that send volunteers across the world to do stuff like build housing/infrastructure or distribute food or whatnot. I mean I can't imagine that the equivalents to these things would be exactly the same in IDW Cybertron, so you'd have to get a little creative with it, but these are just some ideas of jobs that would fit IDW Optimus' personality while still filling the niche of "not a cop" for people who are just that opposed to it.

Though I think the revulsion against coptimus is annoying in general tbh because IDW is already a continuity that rejects the idea of easily defined good/evil people or groups. It feels like people really want Optimus to be a good person in a very sanitized and academically approved way, so he has to be nice and squeaky clean but also like, a perfect leftist who knows theory and holds the most progressive opinions on every single issue....

There is no room for the idea that good people join bad institutions, there's no room for the idea that the reason people think cops are good guys who help people is bc of the government propaganda everything is saturated with. Hell there's even later issues of the Optimus Prime series by John Barber where Optimus like, MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES, is shown in flashbacks grappling with the fact that he as a cop/Zeta's regime that he works for might not actually be improving society like they say they are, and dealing with the fact that he feels more like a lesser evil compared to the Decepticons (perhaps not "lesser" at all).

It's like there's this idea in fandom of like, fictional media and opinions on media having to strictly adhere to progressive ideals at all times. So people just go "cops bad, this character is a cop, therefore they suck" without being willing to engage with the idea of like. IDW OP is born wanting to fight injustice and protect people -> a good way to protect people is to fight the people who are hurting them and committing crimes -> surely following the law is a reliable moral code to guide him in this -> becomes a cop because he's been indoctrinated into a society (much like our own) where he was told that the state/the law exist to protect the people and being a cop means you get to fight bad guys that hurt people. There's really so many interesting concepts there that could be (and CANONICALLY IS) explored about how good, well-intentioned people can be led to harmful actions simply because they have been fed the idea that the things they're doing are good/helpful/noble. Which is especially important for a character like Optimus, I think, who has a cultural icon status as The Irrefutable and Perfect Good, so it's really important actually to use IDW Optimus as an example of how even the most noble people you know have held problematic beliefs or done bad things at some point in their life. You know, because no one is born perfect and ideologically pure, and in fact society is constructed in exactly a manner to make people drink the kool-aid and believe that the systems designed to hurt them/others are just a normal, if flawed, society.

I mean the writing in IDW literally has Optimus deal directly and indirectly with the harm he's done as a cop and how people don't/didn't trust him because of that. I don't know what the fuck else this fandom wants if the source material literally saying "OP realizes that cops suck and he hurt people and earned their disdain by doing the things he did" doesn't stop them from going EW cop bastard sucks and is the worst Optimus. Like the narrative barely stops short of outright saying ACAB and Optimus himself would agree with this sentiment.

At that point, the collective fandom beef with IDW OP isn't because he's a cop and the narrative didn't do enough to condemn that. The problem is literally just that people don't read and don't care

TLDR: Consider the fact that good people can do bad things sometimes especially when living from birth in a corrupt society that thoroughly disguises its vices/oppressive structures as completely normal parts of existence

[malwarechips]

thinking about my hcs for slugcats and where they came from . and also saint

[icewindandboringhorror]

boy in silly sitting positions compilation

[galakianexplosion]

I FINALLY FINISHED MY DANG SKETCH- AFTER THREE WHOLE HOURS-

Sonic and Flash

Yes again

Someone get those idiots out of my head 😖

[szappan]

university.. university leave me alone

[archivebottles]

alas i have been sick this week so here are some drawings of my splat squid (+ octopus) Leaf and Cyan

[IMG ID: Two images, image one is a doodle page of a green haired inkling from Splatoon with various ingame weapons and outfits.

Image two features more doodles with a blue-haired octoling. The leftmost drawing features text that reads: "It's so much better in Splatsville it never gets cold." and "maybe if you didn't cut the sleeves off every shirt you own you wouldn't have this problem." /END ID]

[ink-the-artist]

your rabbit comic makes me think of radfems who, by allying with conservatives, enabled said conservatives to remove federal protections for abortion rights in the USA. literally helped destroy bodily autonomy for MILLIONS. like. perpetuating misogyny for all women, destroying bodily autonomy for everyone, just so that the perpetrators might spare you? even though they won't, and you know deep down they won't? your comic struck me deep in many ways, but this interpretation is the one that lives in my brain tonight

theres a definite overlap between radfems/terfs and tradwife type conservative women, its the hatred of trans people and the way they define women by their bodies and appearance and ability to give birth

[neolxzr]

sometimes i think people misunderstand me as a zadf enjoyer like i dont want them to stop doing the evil enemies archrivals who want eachother dead thing i just think they should take a break once in a while to get milkshakes or maybe also break down and cry in front of each other. you know

[recallback-art]

Fuck it, they're good little guys and they look good so I might as well share em. Bunch of Vocaloid goos I made for Discord, just for fun. Might make more and I have a bunch more goo emojis in general, so maybe you'll see more.

Bonus random doodles for fun: