artists on tumblr stop fukcing lying to yourselves you never draw those sticks and circles when you sketch stuff out you just die and you know it

People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.

People make shit. It’s what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, “hey, wouldn’t that be fucked up? Wild, right?”

Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.

I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I’m not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don’t think I can’t handle it, I don’t watch it. It’s that simple.

i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

Phew! This took me all night. It’s 7am now.

Anyway, I hopped on the screenshot redraw bandwagon (a little bit very late). I hope I helped make this gut-wrenching scene even more painful.

"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together

Some Star n Steven art I did this week

i dont “have ptsd” that’s all just the wizard’s curse

I'm SO excited that we can finally announce the preorder bonus for TAZGN6: submit your preorder receipt at bit.ly/4aOA5U2 and First Second will send you an acrylic keychain! ✨

This was SO much fun to design and I can't wait for them to go out-- I want one!!

If you have any questions, please direct them to First Second on twitter or insta- I'm not involved with fulfilling or running the preorder gift campaign! Thanks for understanding!

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

LMAO 70 screenshots later and a whole meta outline later, I'm still nowhere near finishing this XD

like, LOOK at this... i'm putting more effort into this than all my college research papers combined

Preparing what’s likely to be a multi-post analysis series for a fan comic, stay tuned- not likely to post much in the coming days as I work on this lil side project

I am CONSIDERING making a follow-up video to my Gravity Falls AU fandom deep-dive analysis from last year.

AUs covered in the 2023 video include: Timestuck AU, Monster Falls AU, Reverse Falls AU, Relativity Falls AU, Transcendence AU, Blind Faith (and Reverse Portal) AU, Drifting Stars (and Grifting Stars) AU, and the One of Us AU.

I'm thinking about making a follow-up covering any AUs I missed, though it depends on interest. Also, I intend to focus on AUs that were a collaboration, like Monster Falls or Timestuck and Blind Faith, where multiple people wrote and drew for it.

Leave a reply below if you can think of an AU that I missed.

Again, NO PROMISES that I will make a follow-up. I'm just thinking about it.

Here's to the people who weren't abused by their parents, but whose parents sucked anyways. Here's to people whose parents fucked up raising you out of ignorance and not malice. Here's to the kids whose parents didn't know what to do with you so they did nothing at all. Here's to people whose parents are getting better and growing as people but still hurt you. Here's to every mean comment that wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't come from your mom; here's to awkward family dinners because you're all trying to forget;

here's to you, survivor of a thousand 'not as bad as it could have been' hurts. I see you. You aren't alone.

the comfort in a freak4freak friendship is knowing that you won't be judged for being a freak

Secret to getting to know other fans on tumblr is reblogging. This sounds like a trap to get you guys to reblog art and fics and gifs which yes that’s an added benefit but also the way you get a feel of followers or mutuals is the little comments in the tags of a post like subtle little whispers and you start to recognise names like oh that’s the one who’s always nice to artists or that’s the funny one or maybe they have a funny queue pun tag or maybe there can be a little prev tags interaction like that’s how you start creating your own little likeminded souls club here. Also you get to put pretty art and fics and gifs on your blog