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blujayonthewing · 1 month

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the steadily worsening climate change seasonal creep is having the same psychological effect on me as christmas creep, which is to say that I now have a reflexive negative emotional response to signs of spring before anything else, and then have to try and reorient when they're, like, actually seasonal

#hmm! bad!!#capitalism has classically conditioned me into being reflexively annoyed about christmas even in december #now climate change is trying to replace life-giving joy with anxiety and cynical despair about FLOWERS AND BIRDS... in my FAVORITE SEASON...#and with spring it's harder to track because like... 'it's too early for christmas' has a distinct calendar cutoff to anchor oneself to #seasonal changes are incremental and different each year and already prone to unpredictable fluctuations in the midwest anyway #I know the weather Hasn't Been normal for most of this year but-- mid-march IS normal for early spring... right? it's harder to pin down.#it's harder to remember without waypoints. were there flowers for my gramma's birthday when she was still alive a decade ago?#how cold was it then? in michigan? in the most changeable month of the most changeable season? I can't remember. I can't remember

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time-to-write-and-suffer · 9 months

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I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

#anyway this is just more of that lefty shit where 'well i can't be racist because i'm gay!'#'well i can't be media illiterate because i love villains!'#not how that works babes #'well I KNOW bad from good so i can't be affected by media!'#'everyone else also knows bad from good and defines it the exact way i do!'#'so if i think this is bad then the author must also think this is bad!'#i have bad news ....#also how do you know bad from good? who taught you that? hmm?#did you fall out of the womb knowing? or did you pick up some things on the way here?#'i just know' no you don't! that's what i'm saying!#assuming one thing is always true is the opposite of being a conscious consumer of media soz #assuming someone thinks and knows the exact same shit you think and know is not media literacy!!

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sedrazavi · 14 days

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#mickey mouse #vanity fair #md #butch femme #bad bunny #hmm #mental issue #my aus #neon colors

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otpadsis · 8 months

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#the magnus archives #jonathan sims #my anxiety went so fast over the skies because i listen to like 10 eps a day #me as an anxious and generally scared of everything girl: hmm yes mystic horror podcast right what i need #paranoing like jon <3 #i feel bad drawing fanarts of relatively real people whom i dont know personally eh..

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somerandomdudelmao · 1 year

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All posters + versions without text, if anyone needed them:)

Funny story - the poster with baby Donnie was originally intended for the second round against MNMC. But I was sick that day, so when the voting took place I was busy lying dead on my bed and waiting for the inevitable defeat

#The next morning was fun #Hmm #time to get out of bed #I wonder how bad things are with those pol..WHATTheFUCK #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #riseofthetmnt #leonardo #donatello #future leonardo #casey jones #casey jr #raphael #cass apocalyptic series #future raphael #future michelangelo #michelangelo #future donatello

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wizzard890 · 1 year

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So there’s a trend that I absolutely hate in online discussions of (non-satirical) genre, particularly genre that’s influenced by the gothic. This trend makes my eyes roll back in my head until I can see through my own skull. It makes me want to bite a car in half. It makes me want to step into the jellyfish tank at the New York Aquarium and beg for the sweet sweet annihilation of a thousand stings.

I call this trend: Oh Just Be Sensible, and it goes like this:

“Why do vampires always end up covered in blood when they feed, I don’t spill soup all down the front of my shirt when I eat dinner. Real toddler energy.”

“Why do people always cut their hands to swear oaths, everyone knows it would hurt way less on the [insert body part with fewer nerve endings]”

“Vampires shouldn’t be feeding from people’s wrists, it damages the tendons, if doctors don’t take your blood from your wrist, vampires shouldn’t either! No one will be able to flex their fingers the next day.”

(This comes up a lot with vampires, I mention, as I stride purposefully into the glistening mass of jellyfish.)

There are direct answers for some of these when it comes to the practical visual language of a particular medium (for example, you cut your hand on stage / on set because you can hold a blood pack in there, and even if you don’t have an effect, the gesture and its purpose can be discerned from the nosebleeds) but what really gets me is how thematically boneheaded this sort of observation is.

Like, let’s go down the list here.

Why do vampires end up covered in their victims’ blood? Well Scoob, do you think it could maybe have something to do with their bestial, inhuman nature? Or with the erotic and sensual abandon with which they can approach violence, now that they’re untethered from human morals?

Why do people cut their hands to swear oaths? Aside from what I mentioned above, do you think maybe it’s because it adds a layer of gravity to see two people swearing an oath to one another with blood dripping from their clasped hands? Do you think it’s maybe to evoke a unity of body, something greater and more primal than a unity of word? Or maybe to remind us of the dire consequences of breaking a blood oath?

Why are authors having vampires feed from people’s wrists if it damages their tendons? Damn, maybe that’s because it’s where the pulse is. You know, the pulse? The heartblood, the thing that races when you’re scared or turned on or both? The thing that stutters when you’re close to death and could, should the author choose, ring in the vampire’s ears like a chime or a great pounding thunderclap. Maybe in a story about undead beings who drink blood, we can sacrifice a bit of sensible reality in order to enforce the emotion and thematic heft of a scene?

Images like these communicate what is happening between two characters, not just the events that are transpiring! No one making stories forgot to consider ~sensible~ little observations, because it would be absolutely inane to consider an observation with the creative value of a wet paper towel. This stuff is part of our visual language for a reason! Themes also need to be communicated!

God, like, okay, I’m exhausted and the aquarium staff keeps yelling at me when they find me here, but let me just wrap up by saying that relationships, character and meaning are expressed in so many ways beyond dialogue or internal monologue, and those expressions are so rarely sensible.

(Also all this shit looks cool as hell, do you really want your protagonists swearing to die for one another by dabbing their slightly bleeding elbows together, grow up.)

#me: don't make me tap the sign #sign: fun allowed #(thematic clarity and character relationships should trump sensible realism every time)#(realism is fine! but monocle popping smirky little 'hmm I think dan brown was an idiot' smugness is just....bad!)#(it's bad and it makes for bad writing!)#my thoughts about books

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obsob · 1 year

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more kitties that live in my sketchbook

#mine #i just took a huge amount of psychic damage from going thro my facebook page #my GOD. the things i had on there #anyway. i hope u hve had a good week...my week has been mixed but okay! im super tired ugjug #my period was like 11 days late bc since stopping hormones it like has no idea whats going on n my period app was havin a coronary #i got a notifcation that was like ur ABNORMAL!!!!!!!!!! okay and #hmm what am i going 2 do now.....probably som colouring and then some reading #i stopped reading the fantasy book i was reading it was eating my brain slowly . in a bad way #i tried using my lightbox 2day instead of drawing over my sketch n it worked well!! ive bough different paper n it worked way better #am happy !! :))

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charlietheepicwriter7 · 2 months

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Some kind of Danny and Damian are twins au, but Dan is the one who remembers, not Danny.

SOmething about how the brain blocks traumatic memories, but Dan doesn't have a brain anymore, does he, so he unlocks the truth when he fuses with Plasmius. He relishes killing the Grandfather, the Mother, the Brother, the Family, all who threw him aside and abandoned him (murdered, he was murdered by his family--)

But now he's back in the past, he's getting redeemed, and he has his big sister, and parents who love him, and a little sister, and even a little brother once again-

But sometimes he has trouble remembering who the real little brother is, Danny or Damian, and Danny doesn't remember, might not ever remember, Dan wishes he didn't remember because now he jumps at every shadow (Grandfather is coming for them--) and he barely sleeps and his clone body needs sleep, and he ends up thinking-

Maybe he should kill his old family again. Just for his own peace of mind.

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dpxdc #dcxdp #danny and damian are twins #or at least brothers #c: dan phantom #c: damian wayne #c: danny fenton #dp x dc prompt #Dan is having a Time #he's paranoid and not sleeping and making bad decisions #good news for damian though; he learns his brother is alive!#and gunning for his head.#Dan freshly fused with Plasmius: Hmm! Well fuck those people! *instant kill*

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proxycrit · 3 months

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Salvaging the Ship of Theseus au stuff (tldr: emmet gets eebied to hisui, ingo tries to quit wardenship, Elesa makes deals with demon gods).

Nothing’s finalized and the plot’s still under construction, but this marching doodle of them makes me chuckle

Look at them go!

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triona-tribblescore · 3 months

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he just has a stummy ache guys dw uvu /ns <3

First/ Prev / Next

#SORRY ABOUT THE BAD PACING!!!#I just dont want this au to drag on #i wanna actually finish this lmao #so it may seem super fast paced #BUT YEAH!!#hmm next update might be a mikey solo one/ flashback? OO #splinter content incoming??#then raph :DD #so happy to draw my big rock boy #<3 #tribbleart #rottmnt #rottmnt au #rottmnt comic #guardian au #rottmnt leo #rottmnt mikey #rottmnt fanart #rise of the tmnt

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riumeri · 9 months

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invisibility tactics for physics-inspired psychics

#suzuki shou #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #i don't draw shou enough and i feel bad bc i think he's neat!#like can we talk about how this kid can bend light.#like he paid attention in science class once about what makes things visible and went 'hmm.'

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raevulsix · 6 months

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This man just accepts it. Omega did this 100%.

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froogizweet · 2 years

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NO WAY JIMMY AND KIMMY IN DA CLUB GETTING STURDY???!!! 🤯🤯🤯

#better call saul #better call saul fanart #bcs fanart #mcwexler #saul goodman #kim wexler #jimmy mcgill #breaking bad #brbra #froogizartsies #2d animation #artists on tumblr #clip studio paint #what song would they b dancing to??? hmm

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fishyfishyfishtimes · 19 days

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So far my merfolk haven't been particularly "cursed", but I really want to get to that territory somehow! And I have an idea how...

Most seahorse mermaids have the human-fish split be around the main torso of the seahorse (the seahorso if you will), akin to a centaur: they replace the head and neck with the upper human torso!

However, the way I draw my merfolk, the human-fish split happens at the neck of the fish, as merfolk need the fish gills to breathe. You already know Ahti, here's two examples besides him: