my least favorite thing is when an art reposter claims they are reposting your art to do you a favor. cus who are they helping exactly? not me lmao

last time someone reposted my art, it was on facebook, a platform i’m not on for a reason. it was one of my LGBT+ drawings, something i felt very vulnerable about. it was for a charity zine too, so i didn't make any money from it. plus i’m not out irl, so reposting it out of its original context is so uncomfortable. its already kinda scary for me to share this kind of stuff online. 

my friends kindly asked the reposter to take down the art, or at least ask me for permission, but the reposter of course refused. saying they were doing me a favor cus “they’re promoting black art”, giving me more exposure, it got thousands of likes now, etc etc. oh okay! 

so naturally my friends got blocked. i chimed in, saying i would really prefer it if they took it down, and that they weren’t doing me any favors (my family is on fb and i don't wanna be outed). they didn’t like that i didn’t appreciate their efforts and value their free promotion (actual words they used), and wanted to make sure i knew. so they harassed me for a week straight, removed any mention of me or credit off the art they reposted but kept the art up, sent me anon hate, edited my art to bypass my DMCA claims, and kept editing new art i shared out of spite. but i was the ungrateful bully...

like what, is this middle school? its so obviously them 

but yeah, thank you! i should have been grateful. you have now defiled my art, harassed me, my followers and friends... but i should just believe art reposters want to “support me”. 

this is the kinda stuff that makes artists not wanna share their work anymore. it def made me rethink my relationship wrt sharing my art online. if i wanted my art to be on fb, i'd post it on fb. it's my art, i’m the one that worked for hours on these pieces you can "consume" within seconds - but i'm a real person, not a content farm. it's not your art to post. so all i ask for is please no reposts or edits.

just respect the artists’ wishes,  gah damn.

I've been checking out the OC tags for a little while, and I can say the state of OC sharing on tumblr is in absolute misery.

We've all discussed how bad the ratio of reblogs has become, how the amount of them have been dwindling those last couple of years, but I think an extra important emphasis has to be made on original creation. Though everything is hit by the lack of sharing, fanarts at least have a tag people will look for, improving their visibility - fandom OCs are sadly shared less than fanarts, in general, but they still enjoy that same visibility.

But what of the purely original? People who have OCs belonging solely to their own world, with a tag nobody will look for? I've been seeing awesome OC art that has been sitting for days and weeks with 0 or 1 notes, sometimes 5 or 6 with luck (though most of the time only likes)... And though there are exceptions, overall, it's a frankly saddening sight.

The way for someone to get attention on their OCs is to already be a well established blog or to produce fanart on the side to build a following. Blogs solely creating original content sit at the bottom of the note pool with no escape in sight.

As much as we praise tumblr for its tagging system and the fact it doesn't kill old posts the way other social media does, it still does fail in the way of uplifting creation that isn't fandom-based.

I don't have a solution to this. It is merely a sad observation. It's only natural that people would look for what they already know and love. But in a world where all of our interactions are linked to consumerism, in a world where automation replaces human imagination, I'd love to see a community of people willing to actively search for, and uplift, the creatives that are trying to peek out of the water.

One reblog may lead to another may lead to a follow, may lead to a creator feeling like their work matters.

So I'm doing it, one reblog at a time.

okay hello everyone. Does anyone know anything about what kind of hat it is that Tharkay has.

one time in third year when i was 14 and living in scotland a popular girl asked if she could copy my homework and i looked at her with 100% sincere surprise and disapproval and said "but then how will you learn the material?" and they still didnt screen me for autism until i was twenty four years old 😑

I often think of her when I listen to this song

this is a classic exploration of "an explanation for a villain's actions" as opposed to "an excuse," but

magnifico's trauma from the kingdom he lost long before ever building rosas is exactly what bleeds into his insanely severe and over-the-top reactions to insubordination of any kind. his previous kingdom fell because of an uprising: because the populace rioted, and the response turned into an outright civil war that burned the kingdom to the ground by the end of it

innocent lives lost. good people left homeless and in despair. he's never healthily recovered from the mark that left on him, and so he is prone to lashing out (and straight-up flying off the handle, jeezum crow) when anyone so much as questions him because his brain makes crazy leaps in logic: the moment anyone starts questioning their ruler, getting ideas that go against the ruler's ideas, a seed is planted that can grow into the worst possible outcome. this is precisely why (on top of sporting a massive ego) magnifico does not tolerate transgressions—even innocent ones that really shouldn't be considered a transgression

here comes the irony though: in all his efforts to prevent this from happening, he still gets a similar outcome. the people of rosas still rise up against him. a conflict breaks out because he's tried so desperately hard to stop it. self-fulfilling prophecy. ✭

I'm declaring 2024 the year of the skivvy.

when i was 8 i wrote a pokemon knockoff.. and yea it wasn't that great. but I still hold some nostalgia for it and I think I had the right idea so whatever. it's christmas (it's not christmas). here's some redesigns of those old characters

enjoy!

(p.s. I actually think scooter would be a better name for the first character in the fourth pic but idk im still working on it)

I need that post about chronic pain that says this is fine this is fine this is fine AUGH WOUGH THE HORRORS this is fine or whatever

the 2 genders of:

pastel mode

n fucked up creature of some sort

hi! would it be ok to ask for a link to matthias' pinterest board? thank you

ackk..... my ocs board is private atm bc there are some ocs in there that are still wips... but i can give you a peak at matthias's board for sure. et voilà <3

ahh i just got back from the dentist and even though it was only a consultation and she's like a dentist fear specialist it went so well!! she was very nice and reassuring and they had a spot free with the hygienist i actually took it instead of putting it off for later lol

Also nvm about things getting better between me and my partner sys one of em started screaming at me about how I'm the worst person to exist (literally), told me to die, and then told me I deserved to be told that then blocked me when I just responded with "Okay"

Thinking bout how I’ve been calling the murder gang(Felix, Mason, Nick, Needy, etc)’s story thing CRUSH in my head

got to catch up with my second favorite coworker COMSOL ryan and he either missed my whimsy or was in an excellent mood bc while he is often extremely straightfaced and serious today he seemed delighted by my anecdotes

Does it feel like life is permanently set to extreme hard mode and I still feel super crappy greater than 90% of the time? Yup. But! Emboldened by our relative success with last year's tomatoes, we have given it another go and have added a little pepper plant friend for them. :)

(It may look like the peppers aren't doing as well as the tomatoes, but it cannot be overstated just how bananas this plant's growth chart has been; it's determined to escape the confines of its basket-cage; it has to be constantly rotated so it doesn't completely lose the battle with gravity; I only took this picture the other day and it already looks SO outdated. Can't stop, WON'T STOP.)