i really fucking wish folks would draw the hermits the way they look irl more often instead of drawing them as skinny, young people/characters

DRAW EVERYONE'S UNIQUE FACE SHAPES

DRAW FAT/CHUBBY CREATORS AS FAT/CHUBBY.

DRAW SCAR WITH HIS MOBILITY AIDS

DRAW THE WOMEN. JUST GENERALLY PLEASE

give these grown ass men their facial hair and five o'clock shadows i fucking BEG OF YOU. i just think it's a bit silly when we have such a diverse group of people on a server; different ages, nationalities, body types, facial features, etc and a large majority of art is all skinny young people like who is this??? not my hermits nuh uh

Kindness is not weak and being cruel or mean spirited does not make you strong.

I'm tired of seeing so much hate in posts about helping other people, about trying to spread information, or give helpful tips, or even remind folks to think about others.

You aren't making anything better by being an asshole to people. Do better.

Like the reason people like dreamling isn't because we want to force the two main white boys together for the next big gay ship ( hobs not a main and also ferdie isn't white but ok). It's because we spend half an episode building a really solid and interesting story around their friendship, which includes a lot of queercoded subtext (the 1989 convo w the bartender having no pronouns for example) and the ambiguity around their relationship gives us material to work with, writing our own fics and art etc. It is genuinely fun to be given two great character bases and be allowed to speculate and create new worlds around their relationship. And yes!! They're gay. I'm literally a gay woman let me use fictional characters to explore queerness thanks. Plus if you've read the comics (like me and most) you know what role hob plays further on and how important he is to dream.

Like I understand not liking the ship. There are plenty of popular ships that I despise. But I block that ship tag and move on. Let other ppl have fun.

is anyone else just so tired of tv shows being prematurely canceled? like why should i care? why should i get invested? i know the story isn't going to be allowed to finish, so why should i put my time into watching it?

crazy how indigenous cultures are made fun of for loving and wanting to connect with nature, but when robert frost wants to swing off some birches, that's the height of poetry? of escapism? of love? of wonder?

Venting about cpac

Man that fucking CPAC speech has been getting to me. I mean, they’re getting bolder, and have been for years. I’m scared. I’m just terrified of what the next decade will hold. How much worse will it get? I’ve stopped thinking this will blow over, I’ve started planning what I’ll do in the event of a trans registry. Hell in the event of a full blown genocide. Idk. I’ve just been spun up about that speech since I heard it. The “eradication of transgenderism” met with applause. Not even a fucking euphemism. We aren’t quite at the point of “kill em all” but one step behind that ain’t great. If they try to fuck with me I’ll defend myself to the death. Ain’t life grand?

ai generated images make me increasingly sad and tired the more i see them in more and more casual contexts. i dont know how to explain, but it just fills the world with a bunch of nothing. no matter how visually stunning the pictures might be, there's nothing behind it for me. no dedication, no emotions, no feelings, no hard work or creativity, nothing i can truly think about, admire or enjoy. i dont think thats how art is supposed to be

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

I don't think I'm meant to be employed. It really cuts into my goofy silly haha time. and it makes it nearly impossible to have any wow life is beautiful let me take it in time.

just a girl’s night routine

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Finding reference for painting is such a chore now with AI festering the internet. Images are now inaccurate representations of life and it's exhausting. I just want photos of a forest and I get a vague blend of trees and leaves that come out of nowhere with no sense of accuracy

Tempted more than ever to delete most social apps from my phone. The amount of toxic people I see is getting out of hand. I'm losing faith in humanity because of them.

you know what boils my blood.

over the last 2 weeks, i've seen countless patients walk into my urgent care center, symptomatic for so many things, refusing to get tested for covid and flu, citing that they don't want to knowingly bring it to their holiday tables. i had a patient tell me, verbatim, "i don't want to test for covid, because i don't want to be the asshole who brings it on a plane."

i understand that - i understand that holidays are times where people look forward to meeting loved ones that they might only see once a year, or where they get a break from the hectic back and forth of their lives.

but here's the thing - whether they get tested or not, they will bring whatever they have to their holiday tables. it's pure recklessness to know that you're sick, and walk into someone else's house spreading the disease.

today, january 2, i saw 91 patients, many of them who have tested positive for covid and flu. many of these patients are the same ones who didn't want testing 3 days ago, until their events were over, and now, they will have to reach out to everyone they know to let them know that they were positive because they were showing symptoms well before their event.

the next week or two? we're going to see many, many more, all people with symptoms that started around christmas. these are the only two viruses we test for rapidly in our office, but they are potent and can be fatal in many people.

so here's why i wrote this post, and maybe it's a little late, but - if you care about your loved ones, please get tested if you know you're sick. it doesn't have to be at a clinic if you don't want it to, because the over-the-counter tests work just fine too (if you test within 5-7 days of symptom onset). just...please don't try to run from the knowledge that you might have covid, because immunocompromised people, elderly people, people with co-morbidities like asthma, pregnancy, diabetes, etc...many of them may not recover. and they may not be sitting at your holiday table in the future because of it.