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i'm sort of between graves right now

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Lo-fi detective beats to investigate wizard crimes to 🎵 It's showcase day for the @artists-guild-of-exandria gang!! This time I got to draw everyone's favorite birb dad and senior sightwarden of the great (and doomed) city of Avalir, Cerrit!

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being a symbolism enjoyer should humble you because at the end of the day no matter how eloquently you articulate it youre essentially saying "i love it when things have meaning"

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heard someone say archive of our own should install a "dislike" button and I thought I should say this: no, there's absolutely no need for archive of our own to install a "dislike" button.

why? because archive of our own isn't tiktok or youtube or twitter/x where users can monetize their content. archive of our own is a nonprofit site run by fans for fans, which means every content — every fanfic — you see on archive of our own was made out of pure love and passion from the artists/authors.

ao3 authors write because writing about these characters is their happiness and passion. they write for themselves, but they were generous enough to share with you their creations.

they're not "content creators" the way tiktokers or youtubers or instagram models are. they don't "make content" for views and engagements that can be monetized.

so no, you don't get to "grade their works" unless they specifically and directly ask you to.

you don't get to "say what you dislike about their works" unless they specifically and directly ask you to.

you don't get to "dislike" works that are not made specifically to please you in the first place. you're just a guest in someone's house, a house in which they let you in because they were kind, you don't get to roam around their house and say what you dislike about their furniture. you don't get to roam around their house and say you "dislike their house".

of course, you can have your opinion about the house its host invites you in. but if it's a negative one and you find yourself not liking the house, the polite things for you to do is excuse yourself and leave without telling them you dislike their house.

and just because you personally dislike the house doesn't mean the house is "ugly" either. the house you dislike could be a favorite, most luxurious place to many others.

my point is, don't be entitled by wanting the rights to voice your disapproval of things that you get to enjoy for free. don't be entitled by wanting the rights to voice your disapproval of things that were made out of love and passion — things the artists made for themselves for fun.

it makes you look like an entitled jerk with main character syndrome. the universe does not revolve around you.

now repeat after me: don't like don't read. no one forces you to continue reading a fic you don't like. quietly leave instead of being rude to authors who write for free because writing is their source of comfort.

people are so used to contents that were made because it's a trend / contents like tiktok that were made with the main purpose of reaching high engagement and making profits that they forget sometimes things can be made out of love and be made just for fun. sometimes things are supposed to just be for people to enjoy, and if some people don't enjoy them, then they can simply leave without being unnecessary unkind.

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All I could think of when drawing this was David Bowie's "As the World Falls Down":

“Wasn't too much fun at all But I'll be there for you As the world falls down Falling As the world falls down Falling Falling in love”

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what i've been up to the past 20 minutes

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You are my affliction.

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Laudna | Critical Role fan art for my ongoing PC project.

Support me on Patreon to help keep personal projects like these alive!

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14 year old's who encountered near death ( or just death) experiences, with their parents failed radioactive experiments, and turned them almost into the experimental thing. Had a hectic time in the beginning learning about their new found abilities. Turned into vigilantism to protect their neighborhood. Plus really into science stuff. Cant forget the having a main bully, 2 besties, and a mad scientist in their main villain roster

And both had experiences with the infinity gauntlet - and being displaced into the dc universe specifically into Gotham, moslty joining the batfam, in fanfiction. ( which is totality has no ref to it here def not 0(-( this is just a simple graveyard meet up)

honestly pretty common requirements for all todays vigilantes

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the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

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They should block chatgpt on uni WiFi the way they used to block coolmathgames

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A question for the Phandom.

What obsession do you people have with this kids liver why cant you just let him keep it?

Why is there a whole TAG for vivisection

like i get trigger warnings but when this specific tag has MORE THAN A THOUSAND FICS (understandable, kid is a walking science experiment) FOR THIS TAG AND THE FIRST THING THEY TAKE IS ALWAYS HIS LIVER (not understandable please elaborate. normally as a layperson i would imagine the brain would be the first to end up in a jar(normally they dont seem to care if he lives or not))

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Orphanmaker's Fury by Bad Moon Art Studio

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having a discussion ab slime gender presentation i will return with my findings soon

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"George's topography is different than your husband's. But the way he cups your jaw and the emotion beneath is Jean's."

Some context! Our party wizard, Maeve, her husband had died and she recently found out he was a ghost. But at their reunion last session, he did not wish for her to see how bad that form looked, so Jean's best friend, George, was down to let Jean possess his body so he can kiss his wife. All parties involved are into it. Maeve deserves her husband back and also a boyfriend (after they have a talk)

Maeve's main concern before was how to cast two mage hands so she could touch her ghostly husband. Not an issue now!

But this scene had been living rent free in my head.

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Who are you Kon-el?