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scrawnytreedemon · 6 months

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While I intend this blog to remain a largely news-free space due to the constant hellstate of the world, let me be clear that I stand in full support of both the Palestinian and Jewish peoples who are currently experiencing relentless hate and suffering in these horrid times.

I am disgusted at the number of people, especially "progressives" on this website who have used this situation to spread both Islamophobia and Antisemitism. This goes double if you dared to reblog those "punch nazis/fascists <3" and "[x] are welcome here!" posts while in the next breath spreading dangerous fucking narratives that kill people.

So many people in online political spaces evidently see this as nothing more than a case of picking "sides", when ultimately what matters is supporting the oppressed against fascist governments and militias, wherever they are.

Common people will always have more alike with each other than their leaders. This is not a novel concept. Your activism should always be motivated by love and compassion first, and hatred second. If you use your beliefs as an excuse to find an acceptable target to vent your hatred towards regardless of the actual material outcome, you are no fucking activist.

You're a bigot.

#current events #antisemitism #islamophobia #scrawny rambles #scrawny speaks #again i have not been saying much both for the fact that this blog is meant to be a quiet place #and that i do not consider myself to be a reliable source of serious information and/or morals #but regardless i have been watching i have been taking note #i see you i hear you #and while i am currently in no position to materially help right now #the moment i can i will #i don't like signalling this kind of thing because i want it to be evident in how i *act*#but as this cannot be taken as a given i will say this:#you are welcome here. i am so sorry the world is hateful and vile and i wish i could wipe it all away.#you and your folk did nothing to deserve this and you are right to be scared. and i wish to give you my love.#fascism and genocide are not things to be taken lightly. bigoted 'jokes' are vile and dangerous. human life is what's at stake.#we are heading into a wave of hate that has the potential to repeat history in the worst way imaginable. get a fucking grip.#i'm unlikely to address this further as again. reasons stated above. but i wanted to make my stance clear.#it is late as fuck and i'm pissed. people who should know better miss the fucking memo completely.#i'm fucking glad i unfollowed a popular blogger when i did because look what they're posting now. antisemetic 'jokes'.#i really wonder how common this shit truly is. how many people get away with cloaking themselves as 'progressive.'#or perhaps they genuinely think they are. cognitive dissonance is one hell of a drug. fuck them regardless. scum.#you are no progressive. you are a bigot. a leftist bigot is a bigot regardless of how 'revolutionary' you posture to be.#anyhow apologies for any errors. again. it's late. hope you guys are doing well <3

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sciderman · 5 months

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I saw this in A friends T shop while on my trip to Georgia and it radiates Peter Parker

i don't know WHAT you're talking about. uncle ben could hardly outwrestle him PRE-spider-bite. he was always a stud.

#im gonna cry about him. i love him.#you know what. i'm so mad i didn't get to the six armed spider-man storyline i scripted because guess what.#the normal serum actually WORKS and we get to see this peter parker make a come-back.#sighs. god. the scripts were so funny. shut up. i still want to do it.#a peter parker who. if he loses his powers becomes a scrawny little athsmatic weakling again.#and he's like hm. i may have miscalculated.#sci speaks

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spop-romanticizes-abuse · 3 months

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i do find it curious that spop is known for having diverse body types, but it only applies to the female characters. for male characters we have either decently muscular (bow, seahawk, micah) or scrawny (kyle). where's the diversity when it comes to male characters?

#you have to keep in mind that we don't have much good representation for chubby or plus sized men either #all we get is the “funny fat friend” stereotype which is not good representation at all #speaking of which kyle being scrawny is also treated as a joke #because “haha skinny white boy is so weak and pathetic”#spop critical #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop #she ra #anti spop

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pnuk-r0ck · 3 months

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The trees outside my window r being weighed down by snow and it’s making me nervy

#They’re aren’t 2 close 2 my window and they’re pretty scrawny but I’m still nervy #Victor Speaks

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lcpmon · 4 months

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i think of all my bingo drawings this is one of my faves

#bald? 👍 scrawny and noodle-y? 👍 vest a tiny bit too tight implying some weight? 👍#ideal shrimp man #gilly speaks

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prettyboymichaels · 7 months

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big, Big fan of this headline

#shawn's butt is anything But scrawny fdjk #speaking #shawn michaels #shawn

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delusionsofspace · 2 months

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AUGH okay fine I'm gonna read dungeon meshi

#satt speaks #chilchuck is in my brain rn guys #I have been rotating his scrawny ass #he seems so nuanced and I love it

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put-me-out-of-my-destiny · 1 year

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Another thought about the "Dante gets Angeloed instead of Lady and Trish" AU is Lady rallying a relief effort of sorts in Redgrave City during the month between the Prologue and Mission 1.

Of course the Qliphoth has still taken over Redgrave City completely, but thanks to Lady's efforts, plenty of citizens were able to evacuate, and the military was called much sooner - though they didn't manage to do much, and ultimately gave up.

Maybe some soldiers do stay, however - what's the army gonna do? There's a demon tree - and sort of become Lady's little militia.

While Lady is helping survivors escape, and slowing down the Qliphoth, Trish is surveying the threat on her own - learning what she can about the Qliphoth and this new demon king. And, of course, looking for Dante.

Also, as long as we're including women today, perhaps one thing that gets Nero to go back to Redgrave City when he does - besides Nico creating Overture - is Kyrie wanting to go assist with the relief effort.

Nero - understandably - argues that Kyrie needs to stay with the kids, but she - correctly - reasons that the demon tree could very well spread beyond Redgrave City, and even into Fortuna. She's no warrior, but an extra set of hands could go a long way towards helping those brave people get by, and she can't rest easy knowing she could be doing something but isn't.

Nero can't argue with that - he feels the same way. He hates feeling like dead weight.

So, they leave the kids with a trusted friend (not for too long, DMC5's story only lasts for like a day, after all) and go to Redgrave City. Kyrie, so she can help the relief effort, and Nero, so he can kill Urizen and end this once and for all.

#devil may cry #devil may cry 5 #criticism #au #lady dmc #trish dmc #kyrie dmc #nero dmc #quen speaking #the only thing that would improve this is going with that one idea of v being a woman #don't change her backstory she's still vergil's human half #don't change her design either she's still scrawny and shirtless #literally just canon v but a girl #cue nico being frustrated because every hot girl is either in a relationship or the human half of a middle aged man

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scrawnytreedemon · 2 years

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This got brought up during a conversation with a friend last night, and I realise it’s important to say here.

The way we treat improvement in online art culture, art culture in general but especially online, by only measuring technical prowess is deeply harmful. This issue is not only harmful to beginner artists, whom this most affects, but also wreaks havoc on the minds of even those well entrenched.

We do not emphasise enough how important it is to be comfortable with the physicality of art; how much of art is coordination, and positioning, and finding a comfortable environment: both in a spacial sense and psychological sense. Time and time again, we push for this self-flagellating, motivation-via-punishment strategy, both from ourselves and from our peers, in a hope that this strife shall motivate us, and time and time again it wreaks insecurity, pain, and even total abandonment of the craft altogether.

Look at the state of the online art community. Take a look at any big Youtubers or prolific Instagram posters, and see how many of them continuously breed an environment of self-disparagement and dissatisfaction. How they, intentionally or not, pass these values onto their audiences. I’ll never forget when in one of her art tip videos, Lavendertowne said it was better to improve and be dissatisfied, rather than stay at a certain level and be comfortable.

Just what do you think art is for?

I was fortunate to have come along in my own journey to see this advice for what it was: harmful. Dissatisfaction as motivation. And some people manage to propel themselves off of that; clearly, Haley had. But what this advice either fails to consider, or does so as a form of weeding, is that this shit will utterly decimate the will of anyone not masochistic enough.

That this can and will cause the stagnation they are oh-so fearful of.

It’s sickening.

I hate how much capitalism has fucking twisted online art culture. That it’s turned the beginners on themselves and set them as rabid dogs on each other, and uplifted an Elect Few as flagellant martyrs, bearing the light for all who follow.

The simultaneous lie that art can only be achieved by those born with an innate talent like myself, and that also, if you work hard enough, beat yourself up hard enough, you’ll finally earn your worth. This emphasis on scarcity, whether inborn or dragged up by the bootstraps, either way serves the same end: to deny the fact that art is not special.

That art, just like cooking, is fundamentally human; we all do it, whether it’s prepping instant noodles, or drawing a stickman.

Let’s unpack that, for a moment: the stickman.

Do you know just how much is stored there?

A basic understanding of form, of emphasis on key features(prioritising the head, leaving a potential for emotion), the way it taps into human identity, the fact it’s flexible and can easily be changed-- Hell, alot of humanoid guidelines can be boiled down to stickmen with varying levels of buildup.

It’s so fundamental.

And yet we can go even deeper than that.

Think about how universal the experience is of just drawing shapes. How many of us picked up a crayon, or a twig, or a ballpoint pen, and ran absent patterns over the plane of our medium-- How then they’d allow us to go further, and relay the things we saw around us; whether solely for artistic pleasure, or as a form of preservation; and how neither are entirely divorced.

How my little cousin, scribbling with my coloured pens, is doing the same thing I do in my notebook and on my computer, the same thing Leonardo did with his pencil and his paintbrush, what artisans in the Americas and all over did when decorating their pottery, when they inscribed it, as we all do, with that human soul, and what humans have been doing far, far beyond recorded history, possibly before we were even human.

How essential something like this can be in building hand-eye coordination, another thing that is often neglected in this discussion! That not only are you struggling with technique, but also breaking-in those neural pathways; getting your arm used to these simultaneously repetitive and yet fluid motions. I? I don’t do proper lineart-- My hand is too loose. I’ve tried, and I’ve done it, but the experience was miserable, and there’s no need to put myself through it just because that’s “procedural”.

Your art, at the end of the day, is for you. You may show it to others, and do what you will, but at the end of the day, when the sun goes down, and it’s just you, and your pen, or your stylus, or your paintbrush, or whatever, it’s for you. Whether you started out with “pure” artistic intention or not, here is that.

And it may take awhile to break that in. We’ve made art, even private, into such a performance. Sketchbooks are not meant to be these neat, orderly things-- They can be, and that’s beautiful! --But in a sense, they’re more akin to something as a diary. A little place to pour the soul; to wander where you may, unfettered and unbound.

There are no rules here. There are guidelines. Nothing more.

Take what you will, and go forth.

If you’re struggling to make progress, and you’ve assessed that you do infact want that progress, then consider it’s not technique you need to worry about, but enjoyment; comfort, a degree of assuredness.

You won’t backslide into incoherency if you take your pedal off the break. Let yourself adjust to the road ahead, and drive where you may. And it will be awkward! And it will feel uncomfortable! And you will have those horrid moments where you’re ripped out of your own view and see yourself through the lens of some nebulous judging entity on the outside!

But allow yourself to ignore it.

Because now, you can take your art on your own terms; not on art Youtuber’s terms, not on your disapproving social circle’s terms, or whatever overly-hopeful expectations have been set on you because that’s what we as a capitalistic society do to people displaying any sort of prowess or potential of; Yours.

You deserve to be comfortable with your own work. You deserve to look at something, and feel however you may, and feel as though it isn’t a big deal. You are allowed to find pleasure in just being. That is what art is for: to answer the longings of a yearning soul.

Go forth, love of mine,

And be.

#scrawny rambles #scrawny speaks #art community #legit taking the foot off the brakes and allowing myself to write without a care was what saved that for me #art has always been a stim so even in those unsteady deeply frustrated early years i'd picked up on this fairly quickly #and without much thought #and i get the sense that because this is so often entirely unspoken #that it causes this weird rift in experience #irregardless of prowess #if you're the sort of person who loves challenging and pushing the limits constantly #then that's great!#but i think alot more people need to take it easy #this isn't a competition #this is just another one of thos Very Human Things #the fucking dick grafitti on the underpass walls is just as much art as anything in the louvre #a desire to express in forms somewhat abstract #calling upon form to relay information #and sometimes said information is a sense of great awe #or it's a disgusted eyeroll or juvenile snickering #who cares. everything has its place.#just live.#there's only so much time and you deserve to live it with just a little less worry #one shackle unclasped at a time

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babylonbirdmeat · 3 months

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Closer is truly a set of bones that Reznor didn't put anything on and that's why it's such a fantastic song to sample and remix but like god it is fucking nothing on its own and I will die on this hill like truly Great Start! Where's the rest? What do you MEAN this is it???

Anyways listen to Tobacco by Girl Pusher

#Dama speaks #She puts MEAT on those BONES #Even if that meat is synths that sound like a scrawny stray dog wandering the streets

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spookiespoons · 2 years

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The way I let scrawny white boys ruin me is honestly so embarrassing but I'm not about to stop it

#dream of the endless #the sandman #tom sturridge #the batman #robert pattinson #honestly good for them #theres many more but this is my hyperfixation speaking #i deeply apologize if i ever encounter any of these scrawny white boys #but if i do i hope they have their eyeliner with them

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bean-n-shroob · 1 year

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sometimes i forget cackletta is supposedly a beanpole scrawny witch

Or at least perceived as such by.... literally everyone else. i don't have a reason to see and or draw her the way I do, I just like it. And I do it so often I forget how she really is lol :p

But in my defense

there's a bit of plausible deniability

#mod speaks #don't mind me #I just saw a 3d render of cackletta #and thought #shes a bit scrawny tho

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lcpmon · 3 months

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lngo

#to me hes the kind of guy who was skinny and generally flat despite his diet bc genetics but age caught up with him.#still scrawny but. :points: tummy #gilly speaks

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songofdeath · 10 months

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Of course naturally I've entertained the idea of an "Alive" Karthus, and what he would look like right before he died. Suffice to say after digging around my old RP icon folder, I think if I were to pick a face for him I would probably end up using V from DMC5.

#ooc #mun speaks #ignore me #oh v #the way you were so thin and scrawny in comparison to everyone else in dmc5 and how it had thematic purpose #it truly gets to me #hgjhkjlk #i miss writing him a bit so admittedly that contributes to the idea #i think if karthus actually became fleshy again he would be enraged beyond belief #full on howls moving castle style tantrum #he loves being a wraith #he hates having meat

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