Honestly because I feel like Reagan and Gigi were the only two women in the office (and lowkey the most competent ones) that they always kind of wanted to be friends but just never approached each-other because they assumed they didn’t like eachother. Even in season 1! When everyone is bitching on Reagan about how she looks (tired) Gigi always makes sure to ask her if she’s okay in a follow-up

And they never shit on each others work either! Their work is very different with Gigi manipulating the media and having to keep up with current news and everything, and Reagan being a scientist and co leader of the team. They have never acted like the other is beneath them (ok maybe Reagan did in early season 1 but she just did that to everyone). They do little projects for eachother (Reagan making Gigi a robot for the news, Gigi helping Reagan with the Keanu drama)

And in season 2, Gigi never tells Reagan to stop asking her about Ron or getting her help with her life drama and Reagan makes sure that Gigi knows she finds her work really cool! because well now they’re spending time together and it’s a bit tentative but it’s also a solidarity they’ve both been needing for a while.

Lol, is this cursed, or wonderful?

btw on the asks, I’ll try and answer, but I have a lot of people asking for oc drawings, and was thinking of setting up commissions.

I can’t believe that we have to say “hey, don’t publish and sell other people’s work” in the year 2024

From my understanding, fanfics are currently being sold in Amazon and Etsy.

what is it with people complimenting you on your art, then asking if you used a reference, and going “…oh” and looking substantially less impressed when you say yes

like how do you think this works

every time i see one of those posts about how fans can’t send their headcanons or fics to professional writers because then they can never use those ideas, i think about going back in time just long enough to tell teen me to fold up my “scully gets pregnant with a magical baby and it might be mulder’s baby or it might be an alien and we just don’t know” fic, put it in an envelope, and address it to chris carter. could have saved us all a lot of trouble

Something that really bothers me with Clawdeen redesigns, second to the racist implications of making the black character overly animalistic, is like, I get wanting to go further with the design, but Clawdeens Monster inspiration while listed as generic “werewolf”, her actual monster parent is very clearly “The Wolfman”.

All the G1 ghouls monster parents are “Legendary Monsters” ie the Univeral Monsters, save for Ghoulia who is the daughter of Zombies since there isn’t a specific zombie character. Frankie to Frankenstein, Cleo to The Mummy, Draculaura to Dracula. Despite their parent monster being listed differently, Lagoonas parent is The Creature, and Clawdeens is The Wolfman.

(The proof of Lagoona Blue to The Creature from the Black Lagoon. The highlight is not mine, I grabbed this screenshot off Reddit to keep on hand)

So Clawdeen is the daughter of The Wolfman, a type of werewolf that’s more humanoid with minor wolf features. This is why the werewolves don’t have tails in Monster High, why they aren’t beastial or overly wolf-ish, they’re based on wolfman type werewolves

So that’s why they don’t have tails, paws, or wolf anatomy. The addition of the noses in G3 actually bring them closer to their inspiration.

So like yeah anyone can draw whatever they want, I just feel like the humanoid wolfman style werewolf is underutilized when redesigning or interpreting Clawdeen so I just wanted to bring this up.

🍊 orange moon - erykah badu (sped up a lil)

I loved making a black and white edit, although the time constraints were challenging..

Dude I’m slogging my way through a batch of books from the 1800s trying to figure out if they’re out of copyright or not and that’s TOO HARD so I’m just gonna post about something totally unrelated I’ve been thinking about.

I haven’t actually seen it in this fandom at all but probably because our fandom didn’t exist pre- 2010. But like there’s been a general *idea* circulating recently that fic authors are *too sensitive* now and in the old livejournal/forum days people *begged* for critiques on their fics. They think it’s insane that we, the authors of today, keep telling people to stop being assholes and putting negative comments on fics.

And first of all, I’ve got sort of a “and then everybody clapped” mentality about it. Like I’m just side eyeing anyone who’s like “yeah I wanted everyone to give me HARSH FEEDBACK so I could IMPROVE” as if Hans Christian Andersen himself didn’t lay down in the mud and cry when he read a bad review. It is not in human nature to be like “here is my precious child now everyone give her a good prodding with a knife”. It’s just not.

But ALSO you know what was DIFFERENT about LJ days? The community was SMALLER. I might be more willing to risk some negative critiques if the fandom is just me and, say, 300 other people who are so insanely into said fandom that they’ll track down a fucking livejournal community for it. Fandom is SO accessible now that 1. The Normal People (no offense) are involved and 2. Much YOUNGER people are involved. And that’s a big demographic shift!! (Okay “normal people” needs explained but like. A quick explanation being that fandom used to be for the people who would unabashedly say “squee” and “glomp” and wear cat ears in public. If you are not that level of brazen you may be slightly on the normal side. It’s not bad. It’s just different).

Like I personally do not want a negative critique left by someone who hasn’t figured out that a negative critique isn’t “I didn’t like this plot so the fic sucks”. I TOOK A CLASS ON CRITIQUE IN COLLEGE. I do not expect a high schooler who stumbled upon my fic to be able to leave a helpful negative critique! They’re new to this!

But also like. I’m gonna be real. I don’t care what a stranger thinks of my fic. If they post a negative critique on my fic and I read it and I cry, that’s not me caring about what a stranger thinks, that’s me walking along and being punched in the face by a stranger. I still don’t care what the stranger thinks but I will be getting a restraining order bc I don’t want that to happen.

I *will* sometimes go to my friends whom I *trust* and say “hey this fic is a mess pls help” and they DO they say HELPFUL THINGS. And maybe that’s actually what Fandom Olds are thinking of. Because in a small fandom community you can TRUST people! Like being in a church of 20 where everyone has known everyone for forever versus being in a mega church of thousands. I’m not gonna trust a rando in a mega church. I’m gonna trust Linda from the tiny neighborhood church because she makes the best pizza casserole and she cat sat for me once. Expecting critique in a tiny livejournal community =/= expecting critique in the vast ocean of ao3.

Anyway I’m getting on a tangent. The point is, is authors aren’t *weak* for not wanting negative critique. It’s natural. I don’t know you or your history with fic. I will take comments and compliments because that is fuel in the fire of a writer’s heart. That’s symbiosis. I will not let you prune my writing tree with big loppers because I don’t even know if you’re a tree surgeon, and pruning a tree in the wrong places KILLS IT. DON’T BE A TREE KILLER. Yes this is two completely unrelated metaphors. No im not changing my them.

is their anyone else you could add the League of extraordinary Gentlemen, Canada branch?

Nelvana of the Northern Lights

Buck from Call of the Wild and White Fang from White Fang

Ojistoh from the poem by Emily Pauline Nelson

Uhhh Murdoch? I’ve never seen Murdoch Mysteries but it fits the timeframe and he looks very polite

Bob and Doug McKenzie but their early 20th century ancestors. Roberta and Douglas McKenzie

Edit to just add that this is the post being talked about here

at the nail salon and they’re playing motion sickness

James in Jeddah! 🥴

— Gregory Heirman (f1gregoryheirman) via Instagram

I don't get why people steal something like art

Like

WHY??

MAKE YOUR OWN IF YOU SO DESPERATELY NEED ONE

People should know what boundaries are I swear to fuck-

I'm so sorry that happened!

I'll hunt them down and bring them to you for torture! 🥺

(I already said that but I wanted to say it again: if you ever posted your art privately, I'd be sad because I enjoy it so much but I'd understand because some people are just shit <3)

FR LIKE WHY DONT YOU GO TRY PICKING UP A PENCIL OR PEN OR BRUSH OR NEEDLE OR ANY OTHER MEDIUM AND TRY FUCKING CREATING SOMETHING FOR ONCE?? USE THOSE HANDS FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN STEALING ART FOR PALTRY VIEWS YOU KNOW WILL NEVER BE YOURS. LIVING WITH THE INSECURITY OF KNOWING THAT YOUR SUCCESS IS OFF THE BACKS OF PEOPLE WITH ACTUAL TALENT AND ONE DAY WHEN SOMEONE HAS THE GUTS TO CALL YOU OUT YOU WILL CRUMBLE INTO ASH BECAUSE THAT IS THE WORTHLESS PEDESTAL YOU HAVE PLACED YOURSELF ON.

IM ABOVE PETTY INSULTS BUT GOD I HOPE YOU GO TO HELL IF YOU CLAIM SOMEONE ELSES ART AS YOUR OWN. I MEAN IT.

I think it’s super funny that Idia was the first character to be in my guest room and the first character to invite a guest, despite the fact that all I had was the default ramshackle background and a singular chair

BAM BAM BAM I’m back for Huevember 2023!! First up we’ve got Leanne!

It’s really amusing to me that Sudoku is a loan word from Japanese that we use.

But in Japan, it’s copyrighted, so they use number place (ナンプレ, I think) which is the English name.

We just traded words :)

The divine is online!!