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Ok, loves, so we've all got the message that joking about suicide is bad for your mental health. Now we need to get on "joking that the planet/all of humanity has no future is bad for societal health/encouraging resistance to bad shit."

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i think the next completely unfaithful reimagining of the persephone myth should be a Taken-style action adventure where demeter viciously fights her way through the underworld to rescue her daughter

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i can draw you stuff for money!

Seeing an artbook i really want has motivated me to actually advertise my comms. hello i am broke and can draw. Reblogs super appreciated!

If you aren't looking for something big, I have a Ko-Fi listing for $5 chibi or headshot doodles (there is an option for color)

I like drawing animals, anthros, and vaguely nonhuman designs the most. I do draw fanart and stuff! I wont do nsfw or anything suggestive, or ship art unless its pretty tame. Just in general wont accept anything I'm uncomfortable with.

Besides Ko-Fi, I can use Paypal or Venmo. More in-depth info for my regular comms here. I close these around the end of June and reopen them at the end of July, so only my Ko-Fi listing will be available during that time! You can contact me through DMs or, for a slower response time, email (tracie.thekitten.artsy@gmail.com)

examples (more in my art tag here)

Price chart under cut because this is getting a teensy bit long (estimations, might charge more for really complicated designs or big revisions etc)

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everytime i leave my dog alone at home he tears througha cushion or something plush UNLESS I put some tommyinnit on YouTube. My dog is a bigger more hard-core tommyinnit fan than any of you fucks, I hope you can live with this.

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Reblog with your animal. It’s toucans for me

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went to a chinese garden at the end of days of bloom and got this idea. lil teatime

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Hey y'all!!!

This is my second commissions post but I have an important addition!

Pls help me buy ISAT for my partner!!! :3

I'm job searching rn and saving up for next year's personal expenses (will be studying music full time...! :D) so I'm opening commissions to support extra things like this!!! I've been wanting to show my partner ISAT for a while, so this is a good goal to work towards for me.

I currently have three commission slots open, and I do original composition, audio editing, arrangements, and piano transcriptions! If any of those sound cool (maybe a theme song for your OC, or a movie-style score for an important moment in their story, or maybe a piano version of a song you've been wanting to play but can't find sheet music for anywhere) be sure to check out my Ko-fi!!! You can find me here!!!

If you want more info, you can find some examples of my work here!

I might open drawing commissions as well at a later time! Let me know if anyone would be interested in that!

Okay cool! Fly! Be free!

Love,

Lina

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forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

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the cosmetics this season are gorgeus, so IAP comm time!

For the blue bird season pass ($10), I offer you a fullbody colored sketch (big discount from my usual prices!). I prefer in-game gifting, fine with unlocking the friendship tree myself. I'll wait to finish until the payment is complete.

Examples! (more in my art tag) reblogs i appreciate you very much

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tjis is so stupid but based on this post

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Love answering ”why are you transgender?” with “God told me to” because it’s funny and it confuses everyone except for me. And God. Because he told me to.

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After watching Cinderella (the original animated movie, which was my favorite as a child), it strikes me how it solves many common problems people have with this fairy tale. Like:

Why did they try to identify the mystery girl using her shoe size? Because the bullheaded king's only clue to her identity was the shoe the Grand Duke picked up off the steps.

Why didn't the prince recognize her by her face? Because his father wouldn't involve him in the process at all, and wasn't the one going around trying to find her.

Why did the prince want to marry a lady he only met that night? Because his father was going to force him to marry someone, and he genuinely liked this woman.

Why did Cinderella want to marry a man she only met that night? Because marriage was her best and most secure way to freedom. Fucked up, but you can't say it's unrealistic for the setting of a fairy tale. She also genuinely liked him.

If they're using the slipper to find her, wouldn't it be more sensible to search for the person with the other slipper? Yes. The King is purposefully nonsensical and the Duke is purposefully terrified enough of him to carry out his orders to the letter. Furthermore, they end up doing that in the end anyway, because the Duke's glass slipper is shattered, and Cinderella brings out the one she has to prove her identity.

Why didn't the stepmother and stepsisters recognize Cinderella at the ball? Because they were dancing too far away, and then left the party to dance in private, which was possible because the King wanted very badly for his son to hit it off with someone and tried to arrange the best conditions for that to happen.

Why didn't Cinderella save herself? Because in real life, abuse victims should not have to shoulder that responsibility, and usually can't. In real life, you need and deserve an external support system. Asking for help, in this kind of situation, is very important. She is saved by others because she is loved. Because she is not alone. Because she has friends who love her, and want her to be happy and safe and free. Because in real life, people who want to help someone who is suffering are like the mice. We can't pull out miracle solutions, but we can provide companionship and if we're in the right place at the right time, we can help the person find a better life.

Why didn't the fairy godmother save Cinderella from her abusive household, or try to help her sooner? Because she's magic, and magic can't solve your problems. Quote: "Like all dreams, well, I'm afraid it can't last forever." This (and Cinderella's dream of going to the ball) is a metaphor for pleasurable things in bad circumstances. An ice cream won't get rid of your depression, but it will provide you with momentary happiness to bolster you, as well as the reminder that happiness in general is still possible for you. Cinderella doesn't want to go to the ball so she can get away from her stepmother and stepsisters, or so she can meet someone to marry and leave with. She wants to go to the ball to remind herself that she can still have things she wants. That her desires matter. This is important because the movie does a very good job of illustrating Lady Tremaine's subtle abuse tactics, all of which invisibly press the message that Cinderella doesn't matter. While going to the ball and fulfilling her dreams may not be a victory in the material sense, it is still a victory against Lady Tremaine's efforts.

Why is Cinderella's choice to be kind and obedient framed as a good thing, when you are not obligated to be kind to your abuser? This one walks a very fine line, but I think the movie still makes it make sense. Lady Tremaine never acknowledges her cruelty. She always frames her punishments of Cinderella as Cinderella's fault. Cinderella is interrupting, Cinderella is shirking her duties, Cinderella is playing vicious practical jokes. Cinderella is still a member of the family, of course she can go to the ball, provided she meet these impossible conditions. Lady Tremaine's tactics are designed to make Cinderella feel like she must always be in the wrong and her stepmother must always be in the right. If Cinderella calls her stepmother out on her cruelty, or attempts to fight back, Lady Tremaine can frame that as Cinderella being ungrateful, cruel, broken, evil, etc. If Cinderella responds to her stepmother's cruelty defiantly (in the way she's justified to), she's not taking control out of Lady Tremaine's hands. Disobedience can be spun back into her stepmother's control. She wants Cinderella to be angry and sad and show how much she's hurting. So since Cinderella is adapting to her situation, she chooses to be kind. Not only because she naturally wants to be and it's part of her personality, but because it is a form of defiance in its own way, and it allows her to keep a reminder of her agency and value. Her choice to be kind is her chance to keep her own narrative alive: she is not obeying because her stepmother wants her to and she has to do what her stepmother does, but because she wants to. It's a small distinction, but one that makes all the difference in terms of keeping her hope and identity. (Fuck, I wrote a whole paragraph about how this doesn't mean you can't be angry at people who hurt you or that you need to be kind to deserve help, and then deleted it by accident. Uh. Try again.) Expressing anger and pain is an important part of regaining autonomy and healing. Although it is commendable to be kind while you are suffering, it is NOT required for you to get help or be worthy of help. If Cinderella's recovery was explored beyond "happily ever after" she would need to let herself be angry and sad to heal. Cinderella is not only kind because it comes naturally to her, but because it's her defense against the abuse she's suffering. Everyone's story and experiences are different, and one does not invalidate the other.

Bonus round for answers that aren't part of the movie:

Why didn't Cinderella run away? Where would she go? Genuinely, in hundreds-of-years-ago France, where would she go if she snuck out of the window with a change of clothes? With her step-family, she's miserable and abused, but she's fed, clothed, and in no danger of dying or being taken advantage of by anyone other than her stepmother and stepsisters. Even if she escapes and manages to find financial security, her stepmother might be able to find her and get her back.

Why didn't Cinderella burn the house down with them inside it/slit their throats in the night/poison their food/etc.? Because that's a revenge fantasy, and this story is a fantasy about being saved. There's nothing wrong with making Cinderella into a revenge fantasy. That's perfectly fine, as long as you acknowledge that the other type of fantasy is also a valid interpretation. (I mean, the original fairy tale features the stepsisters getting their feet mutilated and all three of them getting their eyes pecked out, so go for it.)

Why isn't Cinderella more proactive in general? Because she's a child who has been abused for the back half of her life, who has had to be focused on survival because. you know. she's an abused kid.

How did she dance in glass slippers? Gotta agree with you there man, that's weird.

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Points at Siffrin:

NOT A MAN

points at Odile

NOT A MOM FRIEND

points at Isabeau

NOT STUPID

That is all thank you for coming to my talk

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This old Resh cutscene is so silly I can't stop laughing. Resh really saw a random sky kid passed out on the floor, saw their candle, went "Are you going to eat that?", did not wait for an answer, and just fucked off into the distance. To say I am cackling is not to say anything- and the distant thunder just makes it all so serious and for what JHDGJEDGHGHED

Additional screens:

You can see that his cutscene was only at the testing stages and very unfinished, probably from the time TGC was still figuring out the story, considering how clanky and minimal the animation as well as resh's model is

I mean look at this shit. They look so stupid. PUT THOSE GRIPPERS AWAY!!!

Anyway, this is the last bit of hacked content for now, until our lords and saviors Sky hackers will feed us lore crumbs hidden in those sweet sweet files again.

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i hope a ceiling fan falls on the empty spot in the bed next to you and it starts understanding your needs

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reminiscing on when i went cave diving a couple years back & another dude who was in there was playing minecraft music out of his backpack so i just heard c418 slowly approaching me from within an actual cave. shoutout to that guy

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Mutuals line up I'm giving you all one of these bad boys