#(is *highly* diverse)

[ganymedesclock]

Concept: a more 'realistic' take on pokemon where the canonical iterations' smooth, cartoony vibrance are held up as breed standards, so like, a pikachu might naturally have a shaggier, duller colored coat and a more limber body, but if you're participating in a pokemon contest, the judges are going to be interested in a sleek, rounded, bright yellow pikachu (not too orange, not too pale or dark, markings that are neatly shaped)

This inspired by me watching a pet groomer give a dog a teddy bear cut and thinking that the result looked significantly more like a 'live action cartoon animal' than the original.

#Pokemon #like my thinking is rather than focusing on making the pokemon seem more ugly and monstrous #art design choices that emphasize more that pokemon are highly diverse creatures #like consider how different two different cats can look

[sunsetzer]

Small hot spring farm cave mod + npc adventures mod ft Elliott = private hot spring date

#also the diverse stardew valley mod is i think why his hair is pulled up too #10/10 mod i highly recommend all the outfits and even the modded redesigns fit the characters wonderfully #sorry for the image quality lmao i forgot how to take a screenshot #stardew valley #sdv #stardew mods #elliott sdv #stardew valley elliott #my post

[discordiansamba]

thinking about the Blade of Marmora's reaction to Keith in the demon AU.

It's Shiro who ends up explaining to Kolivan what, exactly, a demon is. It is obvious to Kolivan that before the trials, the man was unwitting as to the true nature of the red paladin- of Krolia's son- and he quietly requests that Kolivan and the Blade not tell Keith he knows. To lie for him. Kolivan senses that this is a personal matter, and agrees.

He nearly doesn't allow Keith to join the Blade.

It seems... counter-intuitive, to allow in a member who is harmed by their own blades, Krolia's son or not. It is not in the same way druids are harmed by them- no, the luxite seems to burn Keith. All but Keith's own blade- which after its awakening, seems to have become harmless to him. He has it on good authority from the one called Pidge, the only other paladin who knows of Keith's true nature, that it was not like that before.

The way demons are described to him... they sound like the tales of the creatures of the rift. The ones that paladins fought so long ago, when there was still a Daibazaal to protect. Kolivan does not know what to make of that. He does not think it is a coincidence. It is something that could make Keith's demon blood a benefit...

...or a danger.

But if the lions of Voltron saw fit to select him as a paladin, then perhaps it is more of the former than the latter.

#pidge's (highly improvised) guide to demons #not mentioned: the rest of the blade wrapping their head around the notion #that shiro's familiar and keith are of the same bloodline #the galra are diverse but they are not THAT diverse

[not-poignant]

hiiii! have you considered releasing tradewinds as a single purchase through a site like gumroad?

Hi anon!

So the reason Tradewinds was shelved and not published like 8 years ago, is because I couldn't find an Aboriginal sensitivity reader willing to read m/m with disturbing themes. I had sensitivity readers for the other side of things (like Matan and his heritage), but I kept either not finding anyone, or the one person I found took my $200 USD deposit and vanished and never spoke to me / responded to any of my emails.

As a result, I was uncomfortable distributing it anywhere broadly, even though I was relatively confident the novel isn't offensive, because I just don't know 100%.

I am a lot more confident releasing it via subscription as an exclusive novel, because the people who pay for subscription are often folks who are a) already used to my style of writing and b) generally know what to expect from me, vs. cold audiences who don't. I'm kind of kicking myself that I didn't realise that Tradewinds would make a great exclusive/paywalled release for subscription, because it means it's only ever going to find a very narrow bandwidth of readers.

Basically if I could release it for single purchase - as basically an ebook - I would have released it like 8 years ago, anon. And the reason I have actually released it this specific way is down to the fact that I'm just not really confident offering it for broader distribution.

That might change one day, if I happen to stumble across a sensitivity reader who is okay with my style of writing, who is reputable + has references (i.e. so I know I won't lose a fair chunk of money in the process, because that burned me pretty badly, not gonna lie). But until then, having Tradewinds be limited is the only way I'm comfortable releasing it at all.

Folks are more than welcome to sign up for one month, download the book (and read any other early access they want) and then leave. They can even just put 'I only wanted one thing and now I have it' in the exit survey so I know what they were there for if they want. Then it's still a single purchase (with some early access extras), and they still access the downloadable file. :)

#asks and answers #tradewinds #merchantverse #tradewinds was shelved not because i think it's a bad book #but because i wasn't comfortable going to broad distribution without a very specific kind of sensitivity reader #it was actually meant to be the series i started publishing with #long before perth shifters existed #and then i realised that through writing a highly diverse cast #i might have actually really hurt the future of the series #and had to shelve the whole thing and all the worldbuilding #i really don't regret tradewinds at all #i like the book and i love the characters #but yeah it was complicated #what i thought would be an 'easy' problem to solve was really difficult in part because #'sensitivity readers' is a very USA concept and certainly was back then #and a lot of the folks i enquired with who did offer sensitivity reading on Aboriginal Australian matters #didn't read m/m or didn't want to read anything problematic / with any disturbing themes #which i can understand #but literally reduced my pool to '0 plus that one person who took $200 USD from me at a time when i had to skip medical appts because of it #i'm sure it would be better now #but i'm also happy to offer a novel to folks who sign up to the patreon / ream account #since that is my main and primary income

[bas-writes]

btw, I love Oda for all the big boobs. female boobs. male boobs. boob paradise boobily breasting everywhere.

he's a man of culture and size kink, and I'm here to eat well at his table.

#yeah some body diversity would be cool and very appreciated but I really don't intend to complain on the big chests #and tbf Oda's highly stylised artstyle never bothered me that much #the constant usage of the same few body types: yes #but not each type itself #I know irl almost all those breasted ladies would need serious chub to keep the proportions and this thought makes me v happy :)) #bas mumbles

[lunarharp]

wip thing...

of my bg3 avatar hellebore. i also did some casual nude studies of my 3 characters which i'll put under a cut... rather unlike me after all. (so WARNING for abrupt non-sexual full Artistic nudity lol...,,,,) (< won't be making a habit of this)

they mean the world to me

#bg3 spoilers #?? idk. gith look so..Emaciated. And long. i guess we don't eat on the astral plane :) anyway..well..too much to say..... #it is very very very depressing having to live in the Real World after that final playthrough meant so very much to me. #i normally feel Hope & suchlike after finishing a highly immersive emotional game..but it's too hard this time and it hurtsssss lol yippee #i appreciate bg3 very much for being a place where i could access the concept of nudity & such like in a way that finally felt comfortable. #bodies are inherently non-sexual. they just Are a Fact of Life. this game being NORMAL about nudity from the character creation screen #makes it possible for someone like me to actually have a chance at accessing sensuality in a way that feels comfortable from there. #dont feel like putting it into words further. im ace. just very grateful to this game. even despite the horrors i will never ever forget it #augoh..gugf.. want to go back. my friends & love are in there.....i'm supposed to just move on? in the real world??? THIS place???? UHH???? #my characters canonically look like that too!! i see them as intersex and not so much trans. They just look that way. #Diversity win!!! the people who enacted horrors upon you and are trying to kill you again respect your pronouns!!!! <3 #I FAILED HONOUR MODE IN THE STUPIDEST WAY POSSIBLE..ACCIDENTALLY TOUCHED AN ITEM. MY LOVER TOUCHED SOME BLOOD-TOUCHED RAG ITEM @ THE CRECHE #AND MY PEOPLE MASSACRED US... YOU BELOVED PRAT. OF COURSE IT WOULD BE YOU AND IN THIS WAY #grateful for love triangle chaos...INTENSE EX DRAMA... IT HAD MAJOR REPURCUSSIONS THIS TIME...ohh so very much happened ohh my dear #truly don't know how to face the Real World now for real. I Don't Know. something has snapped. ive realised twt just makes me feel sad lol #if something in my spare time isn't at least half as fun as bg3....like.. it's not good enough. god we only have one wild and precious life #being Online makes me feel a loneliness so wretched and painful and horrible i really don't think this is the answer. #Why did you even start drawing in the first place? Why did you start this? #For real..the need to work this out and decide what on earth i'm going to do now has presented itself. Why try to get better..why be online #someone who has an imagination that can keep them so happy and fulfilled...has no business also feeling a loneliness as profound as this. #why was someone THIS introverted and withdrawn and anxious also cursed with such a restlessness? #What are you going to DO now? because hellebore and their lover are fine....... So what about you...? #hellebore..😭😭 AUUGHH!! I JUST WANT TO GO TO MY BED IN THE INN...PLAY ON MY VIOLIN THAT'S WHAT I'D DO!!!! i'd drink some ALE DAMNIT!!!!! #i was rereading My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness- the only time i've seen this level of emotional isolation depicted-and was grateful. #but then i read her latest book and now she has a debilitating substance abuse situation and it's upsetting. #I hope she finds what she was looking for. I hope we all make it. kind of wild that i dont do such major self-sabotage at this point myself #I truly think anyone who manages to find dear friends and achieve fulfillment and happiness with others outside themselves are amazing. #I see it happen from my tower. i hope we all make it. I hope we can make it through everything to come. #Why did i say all this on drawings of my characters naked. ah who even cares any more......

[aisling-saoirse]

Tangled High Marsh Grasses - September 17th 2023

#spartina patens #love this species too #the historic source of atlantic salt hay #a historic hay venerated in the romatic art period and also a highly desired cheap resilient farm crop #high marsh is a bit more diverse and typically flooded less frequently #careful walking on it crabs love to hide in the grass #easier to walk on honestly #photographers on tumblr #original phography #nature #njlocal #new jersey #delaware bay #nj #salt marsh

[overthinkinglotr]

RE: Amazon's Lord of the Rings series: I think this excellent video from Sarah z -- about the way that right-wing backlash against certain media properties makes it nearly impossible to have genuine conversations about them, because you can't talk about them in good faith without inadvertently adding to the right-wing dogpile of people criticizing them for racist sexist reasons -- conveys pretty much everything I should probably say about it ladjflksdfs. Sarah Z makes a great point that this kind of vicious right-wing backlash often tends to deliberately focus media properties that are mediocre because of other reasons (like boring corporate mandates) and claim they're mediocre because of diversity. Right-wingers intentionally ignore properties that have diversity and are Good, and intentionally ignore the billions of shows/movies that aren't "woke" but are also similarly mediocre. Because right-wingers don't actually care about the "quality of art" unless they can use that as a weapon to attack the people they hate.

#rings of power #i watched it in an airbnb that had it on while fleeing a hurricane #it's sad because i think the copyright issues dogging the amazon series are so interesting!!!! #and id love to talk about them #the show itself is a blandly fine okay generic fantasy show #because theyre like mandated to be generic since they dont have the rights to the specifics #but the rights issues are fascinating! #and really shows how copyright law in the united states hamstrings ANYONe's ability to create meaningful transformative work #like one interesting thing I noticed is that the series uses practically None of tolkien's words #almost as if the complicated rights issues also limit the amount of quotes they're allowed to use #(I counted only 2 highly edited Tolkien quotes within the 8 hours of the first 6 episodes) #and the absence of the language is so strongly Felt #which I think is fascinating #which separates it from every single adaptation before it as well (including the obscure low budget ones) which always utilize the language #like wow it's almost like Language is super important to the story #also wow I wish this series were as progressive and far left as right-wingers claim it is alkjsldkfjsdf #it is Not #it is very obvious while watching it that the writer's room was Waaay less diverse than the cast #and the cast itself really isn't all that diverse when you get down to it #lotr #is posting this a mistake? #idk I got dogpiled by right-wingers the other day so I dont fear death anymore

[milktoast-femboy]

The Fallers Creator is finally done! Started in March, I've used all my love for Gravity Falls to put together this GF themed creator. Fellow fans should recognize plenty of easter eggs from the show. I wanted to make it as inclusive as possible so there's also a good amount of skin tones to choose from, a wheelchair piece, a hearing aid as well as plenty of lgbt pins! Make sure to check all the colors for items!

Feel free to @ me to show me what you make as well as let me know if there's any mistakes!

#gravity falls picrew #gravity falls character creator #diverse picrews #lgbt friendly picrews #cartoon picrews #reblogs are highly appreciate so more people can see this #mutt.paint

[six-of-ravens]

started Archivist Wasp and was trying to remember how it got on my library list, and then realized it was from this one blog I followed for a while before realizing they had some really bad opinions (nothing scandalous, just stuff I disagreed with about books that I don't even remember now, cause that was 2 full years ago) and anyway this book isn't really the showstopping mind-bending experience they promised, and if it doesn't improve by page 50 I'm gonna write it off and just say that person has bad taste

#the problem is we did like a lot of similar books but for different reasons #i think that was one of those blogs whose only basis for how good/bad a book was was how many Diversity Points it earned #which got tiring after a while cause listen. not every book can do everything. #better to do one thing well than 10 things half-assed imo #anyway. the writing style with this one is not really working for me. like it's not BAD but i had very high expectations lol #bc i knew this book was highly recommended but couldn't remember where that came from for the longest time

[simptasia]

Ten years ago today I decided to watch abc’s LOST. I did this because I had/have a crush on Dominic Monaghan, and when one is yearning for content for an actor, three seasons as a main character is a jackpot. I honestly didn’t expect this show to be good, because I’d barely heard of LOST. But I wanted to at least try it out. I remember cautiously saying to my mum: “We’ll watch an episode and if we don’t like it, I’ll put on something else.”

Five minutes later we were hooked

A month and a half later, we had watched all six seasons

When the finale ended, my mum hugged me and thanked me

So yeah, LOST is pretty good. Comedic understatement aside, I personally think LOST is a masterpiece of television. (Though flawed enough for me and my friends to still be jabbing at it to this day. With love. Nothing is perfect)

In the decade since I first watched this show, not only has it given me hours of joy and tears, it’s also given me at least a dozen more celeb crushes (came in with one, left with 20 more...), for real I’m so glad I know who a bunch of these actors are. Michael Emerson and Jeremy Davies deserve honourable mentions but also [gestures at most of the cast]. Incredibly talented people

This show has inspired me to create a truly staggering amount of hilarious content, for which I refused to let the Text Post Meme die. Seeing people enjoy my memes, my art pieces, my videos, my headcanons/theories... all of this gives me a great deal of joy, so I thank you all, I love seeing y’all in the tags

And finally, this show has led me to making a lot of friends and well wishers. I’ve found a place in this cozy little corner of the LOST fandom and I love it

There aren’t enough words for how much this show means to me, which is a helluva thing for me to say about something that isn’t Star Trek

I’m so grateful that on the afternoon of April 11th 2013, I decided to pick up LOST season one from our local blockbuster. It’s been a good ten years

Thank you for your time

#me #lost #as i was writing this my head got overfilled with stuff to say #because i adore lost #but i did wanna keep this relatively short #but yeah i got a lotta good memories #how i love thee? shall i count the ways... #the writing. the acting. the diversity. seeing ND people being loved. the beautiful people. the score #inspiring major changes in the landscape of modern television #also i was 18 when i first watched lost and i'm 28 now. and the difference that means mentally and emotionally is Quite A Lot #so tho lost came to me more recent than star trek or doctor who it still feels formative to me #so yeah i highly recc it. and without hesitation

[aftout]

Reading American Gods is like taking a peek into the world’s most toxic and doomed found family trope ever written, where everyone wants you dead but won’t let anyone outside of that lay as much as a fingertip on you. And every single time you go yayyyyy!

#I highly recommend this book if you haven’t read it. #being written in 2001 it is a bit outdated in its language and there are some parts that make me furrow my brow a bit #it’s to be expected. i don’t necessarily go into literature expecting modern purity #least of all when said book is written 22 years ago #but even with those flaws it is so incredibly thoughtful and— dare I say— diverse. Both in characters and experiences. #there’s something touching about a book written with spirituality in mind. Not in an organized way but in a raw and humane way #it’s thought provoking and unique; funny at times too. And the cast is memorable. #I love looking up the new names and terms related to mythology that I learn after finishing a chapter #the way Gaiman managed to modernize certain ancient deities is a type of ingenious #my mom was the one who recommended this book to me after I told her about Who’s Lila; funnily enough. I’m very grateful.

[timeisacephalopod]

I saw a post the other day that kinda pushed back on the way all coming of age movies are about sexuality and all high school stories basically center around who wants to fuck who and how that's like. Not really all coming of age and high school stories should offer since you know. Youth isn't about who you have a crush on and probably coming of age stories in particular should be far more diverse in subject matter than they are.

Honestly as someone who, when I was 'coming of age' age, hated coming of age stories and still do for the exact reason listed above (see the weird scene in It where we all sexualize a 13 year old girl because boys have crushes and surely there's no other way to portray this than feeling a child up with a camera to demonstrate boys have ~feelings~ Bev gets no equivalent scene because she's the object of affection rather than the subject feeling desire) I also wish there was diversity in those stories. And coming of age stories about adults- we don't stop going through huge life moments that change everything forever, but back to kids. When I was a kid I could have desperately used a coming of age story where the character has a sick and dying parent who does die by the end of the story and what happens after that. Granted I did just fine without it, but even without being asexual it's always irked me that coming of age stories don't seem to appreciate that kids have way larger problems and way better stories to tell then first crushes and first kisses for shit sake give kids who went through what I did as a kid some kind of story about what happens when your parent gets cancer and how complicated that is and stop assuming the biggest thing that happens around puberty is discovering sexuality that, if you were queer, you probably already noticed what you felt wasn't in a coming of age story anyway.

#winters ramblings #id actually LOVE to see a coming of age story about an immigrant child moving to a new country #and have the coming of age center around THAT instead of these bizarre vaguely adult explorations of sexuality #that honestly ive never related to anyway like maybe the allos get it but even THEY deserve more diversity in stories #SURELY even your local allos have a dad dying of cancer they desperately need to know what to do with #like deadass a therapist told me at 26 i was robbed as a child because of what i went through and i STILL cry when i think of that #but no coming of age is all sex shit because children according to adults dont have real issues #which tells me adukts writing the stories are MASSIVELY privileged or stunted by execs or straight up assune kids wont watch #a REAL coming of age story. also i want a coming of age story about a 40 year old who is going through a career change #and the struggles that come with late career change. the benefits of a late career change. all the complicated family goo around all this #just give me decent stories that arent too focused on fycking RELATIONSHIPS for once. have them there sure i dont care #but for FUCK sakes can we stop pretending a 13 year olds biggest concern us who they have a crush on?? #my dad was DEAD and i knew only one other person who lost her mom way younger than me at 8 #we did not understand each other and how could we when our situations were so different. BOTH of us were so highly alienated #because NO ONE not even each other could relate to a lot if the people around us. the only thing we DID have in common #was the sick feeling we got when someone would bitch about their parents having fair expectations or not giving them literally everything #we both had an 'at least you HAVE parents to hokd you to reasonable standards and all you do is SQUANDER it' even if our feelings werent #faur to our peers anymore than their feelings were fair to us. wheres the coming of age story about THAT #tell me a story about a 16 year old whos mom has been dead HALF her life already like my friend. i was lucky enough not to deal with that #until i was 24. she deserved better out if high school and coming of age stories too. believe it or not kids have REAL lives and problems #and im SO tired of no one writing anything but some sad kids books about it even if the books are SOMETHING to start with #like for shit sakes must NICEthat the worst thing YOU went through was realizing you had a sexuality but my queer ass #ALWAYS knew i was different and highschool highlighted that a BUNCH so unless we're exploring aroace teens that doesnt appeal either #great yet ANOTHER story about straight teenagers because THEYRE the ones who need guidance on how to express themselves #like they dont see strsight people storoes and sexuality EVERYWHERE plus the ACTUAL opportunity to date in high school #that most queer kids dont get or dont get in the same way. why is THAT the only story being told when its the most saturated and BORING #and also ignores that kids have REAL issues and NO angency. explore THAT. do ANYTHING but yet another fucking coming of age story #about straight kids having crushes on each other and thats IT like come on SERIOUSLY

[zoe-bug]

You hate yourself for being so ​much​ sometimes. ​

Here​, you want say—want to offer her the loose ends of your marionette strings—​let me not be a person for a little while​.

I got this short piece of flash fiction published back in 2020 and to this day it’s still one of the most vulnerable soul-bearing things I’ve ever written so please enjoy if you’re interested~

(CW: alcohol and marijuana consumption, mentions of BDSM)

#my writing #queer lit #i also highly recommend beestung as a lit magazine #cus its all nonbinary writers and diverse writing #and they care about and pay their writers

[fideidefenswhore]

You see my rudeness and inability to be a writer to so great a Prince, but his gracious benignity encourages me so to do.

Stephen Vaughan to Thomas Cromwell (January 1531)

#i know not everyone rate's lipscomb's 1536 book that highly but ..... #i think there is a distinct diversion in not only henry's language from that point on #but in how others write about him #i think people also forget that the GM in and of itself by and large did not make his own subjects think less of him

[pocima]

And when Reol and Shygirl bump into each other in Tokyo and it all leads to a UK garage joint track

#Mimi.txt #another day another highly unrealistic collab idea #this being the most random duo ever 💀 they will never even breathe within a 10 km radius of e/o #but hear me out: both are great rappers with smooth flows who know how to make BANGERS but still have diverse discographies #and their vocal tones would create a cool contrast too… we need to start a campaign actually