#but i just wanted to say that ya know

[anneapocalypse]

So, just curious how many writers and creators will have to be forcibly outed by relentless harassment before we acknowledge that "This queer characters was written by a cishet person and that's why they're bad" is not good criticism.

#yes i'm just going to come out and say it i'm talking about sera #not exclusively but i am talking about her #'but her writer actually iS A--' you don't know that! it doesn't matter! and i don't care! #just say that you do not like the character. #people will reblog posts about the latest actor or YA author or whatever getting forced out of the closet and be like #'wow. :( that's terrible.' #and then GO RIGHT BACK TO DOING IT #when are we going to learn #when are we going to stop doing this BEFORE somebody is forcibly outed #because in practical terms #that means you have to be okay with queer characters being written by straight people. #you have to stop weaponizing that against writers you don't like. #you have to be willing to critique the writing on its own merits #without using the writer's (assumed) identity to prop up your arguments #that's how it works #but who wants to actually change the way they talk about media #when tearing apart people's identities for clout is far more entertaining. #gwaren exports #fandom problems #fandom critical

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

#edit: edited the og post to what i want but to set the record straight i edited to the post to be mathematically correct right after the #first person pointed it out which was like ten mins after i posted the og post. now fuck offf !!!!! the rest of the tags r from the og post #for some reason i feel very immature making your mom jokes about tumblr staff. which i shldnt !! #bc they suck nd they still havent given me polls. but i ig i feel imature bc it a your mom joke 😭 but still i tihnk its kinda funny #EDIT: edited the post to what i want bc yall were getting annoying . but to set the record straight i edited to post to be mathematically #also its *mum* not mom okay i am NOT !! an american . but if i say mum everyone will j be like 'omg british' like i dont know i am #anyway. i want polls please. give me the rigght to force my mutuals chose between the most inane things #also i tihnk it wld b cool for the cs weekly blog. like w each episode #i cld do a poll of like. out of five stars what do u think of this ep #and it wld b a cool thing of which eps r ppls faves #also i cld have like. whose ur fave in team red whos ur fave in acme etc #id prob just have to go with vile faculty bc theres more than 10 ppl in vile. and ppl wld kill me if i didnt include nel the ell or whoever #it wld b fun !!! #oh btw csweekly thats i thing i want to start. prob on uhhh the 11th of feb ill post abt it more but its basically #a tag/blog for watching cs one ep a time watching one ep every saturday #ya !! :3 #flappy rambles #inaccessible #ask to tag #(<- idk. just in case)

[jorrated]

fleetway sonic is soooooooo bad with being cared for, he wants to be the most special boy in the spotlight ever but if somebody gives him a genuine hug he will die

#jo.art #sonic the hedgehog #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #tails the fox #porker lewis #johnny lightfoot #im bringing back echidnas being very expressive with hands #so putting hand on the chest means sincerity #cause ya know it very close to the heart #and the screaming is just knux thinking shouting = intensity #he really means it but he doesnt want to show that to sonic #cause hes a prick #oh and knux says happy bday in maya #im pretty sure i got it right but wow #i suck at researching language #took me way longer that it needed i think #sonknux #<- ya sure #fleetway #sonic the comic

[twisting-in-wonderland]

Ace has a front row seat to the soon-to-be greatest event in NRC history-

based on this pic--

the energy this exudes will always crack me up-

heres a wip btw >_>

fun fact! originally grim was gonna be O_O at Jamil too, but then i remembered that grim doesnt have an ounce of awareness in him rip

#twst #twisted wonderland #art #ram's art #azul ashengrotto #jamil viper #ace trappola #deuce spade #twst grim #uhhhh yea this is like. messy and stuff #i just wanted to break my art block that ive been stuck in for over a month with a joke lol #can you tell that i drew azul in the first pic without a reference---- i hope not lol??-------- #i /was/ gonna do the bg as the scarabia dorm - like they all got invited to a meal or something but i needed to finsih this man -- #-its been a wip for a literal month p l s #also- shout out to the cherry pie and table that were gonna have more stuff done to them but sai straight up said 'no more layers allowed:] #anyways rip azul - nice knowing ya

[napping-sapphic]

NEED someone to let me pull them close and spend hours telling them all the things I love about them

#wlw #wlw mood #sapphic #sapphism #lesbian #sometimes my brain just NEEDS to compliment ya know #like i have all these thoughts about people #and how much i love little things they do #and!! i want to say it all!!! #but sometimes that’s weird!! so you can’t!!! #and it’s like ughhhh just let me be affectionate with you PLEASEEE #im gay and i like sleeping

[ranticore]

I gave up on editing and did this instead check it out. I had a rough time with the zeta because they kept getting too anthro dog-ish and I wanted them to read as primates. The one pictured there is a crew member on a whaling vessel (chef and lookout).

Image description and transcript of text below the cut:

[Figure 1 description: Front and side views of a zeta's face with the skull and external anatomy overlaid and separate. The skull is similar to a baboon's with massive broad fangs and a huge saggital crest on top for muscle attachment. Figure 2 description: a bar of colours ranging from dark brown, to reddish, to pale cream, to violet, to blue, to dark blue. Beneath it are several blue markings resembling a stylised 'A' or an arrow. Figure 3 description: a pair of zeta standing together. They are blue, brown, and cream in colour and wearing fancy black collars with dark tassels, and knuckle-guards to protect their feet. They have stocky muscular bodies and ape-like heads. One is propped up on their elbows over the back of the other, looking in a different direction.]

Text reads:

Terrestrial Zeta of Siren: Overview

Zeta are large quadrupedal mammals primarily found in the Eastern continent, the only area of significant continuous land. They are specialists at hunting and killing the local wildlife, most of which have strong chitinous shells and can be thought of as similar to millipedes or isopods. Zeta maxillary canines (1c) are the largest on Siren, laterally flattened and lacking sharp points, instead used to crush and split open the shells of their main prey, and they have huge saggital crests to support their jaw muscles. Zeta were formerly aquatic and still retain tail flukes and dense bones from that evolutionary era (3). They have a plantigrade, knuckle-walking locomotion and lack tongues. Zeta are marsupial and unisex.

Fig. 2 shows the coat colour variation. It is divided into red phase and blue phase shades. While most individuals have both phases, some are solely red or solely blue. Zeta are the only people on Siren who have naturally occurring blue pigments in their skin and hair, and blue eyes. The settlers who genetically engineered zeta also programmed in the logo of their megacorporation, which was a stylised blue letter 'A', which would appear like a tattoo from birth on the skin of zeta, formed of their own pigments. Over subsequent milennia, the logo has become indistinct and abstract, and the blue pigment is no longer limited to this particular marking, but found all over.

Kattakati

During the development of zeta, the genetic engineers wanted to produce a creature which would never have solidarity with a member of its own kind. They tampered with the brains of their creations, thinking that they had produced a creature with no sense of community, empathy, solidarity, or sympathy. In the intervening years zeta have developed a novel way to regain those traits, for their own survival. Early aquatic and terrestrial zeta developed a form of eusociality, viewing members of their pack as themselves, as limbs of one being, and over time this developed into the Dry Bowl practice of Kattakati pairing. This consists of a pair of zeta who have entered a binding agreement to consider one another a single being (3). Legally, socially, and culturally, a kattakati is one person. It has a single name and will not allow others to distinguish between its component bodies in any meaningful way, as they are supposed to be taken as a complete whole, together. It is frowned upon to consider the pair anything other than one guy. The two halves of a kattakati do not necessarily agree on all things, but this is not a contradiction; a person often thinks contradicting thoughts, and feels contradicting things. The nature of the bond is not platonic, romantic, or sexual, and a kattakati might make friends and date other people (you can't date just one half - you need to date the whole guy).

#told ya it was unethical #setting: siren #i know empathy is a charged word here but it's hard to discuss the effects of the GMO without falling back on it #they basically turned off the part of the brain that says We Live In A Society and a bunch of other stuff besides #is it scientific? no. i just wanted to explore what is necessary to reverse-engineer 'society' back into a population #speculative biology

[eatingsomegreeneggos]

I cannot wait for Wish to come out this year! Some crossover art with the original wish lady because we love pretty tall women ✨️💙

#dont mind me casually making crossover shipart like 5 months before the movie comes out sshh #I take pride in providing yall femslash content!! <333 #also yes I DID make the blue fairy taller/bigger than shes supposed to be what are you gonna do about it 😌 #anyways Im so not normal over the blue fairy like aaaaaa I looove her 🥺💗 #and the new princess she seems so cute!!! so so cute!!! I want to learn more about her!! #Asha #disney asha #the blue fairy #pinnocchio #wish #disney wish #wish 2023 #fanart #my art #femslash #disney femslash #asha x blue fairy #I hope this doesnt age terribly well see haha! #also just saying this was intended as ship art like ya know just a lil crack ship for fun #but also of course the work isnt that romantic so if you dont like the pairing like thats fine you can just consider it a cute crossover! #because honestly thats really just it

[spooky-activity]

the moms are fighting

#my art #mine #honkai star rail #hsr #hsr himeko #hsr kafka #kafhime #motivating myself to draw more using bloody homoerotic scenes is working #i think himeko could win with enough prep time like batman #but it takes a while to aim the orbital space laser ya know #even if she does win one of these drawings kafka’ll still say something witty and flirty #thats just how she is #where’d himeko’s jacket go? #kafka sliced it up to show off her sword dexterity #himeko did not appreciate this #but now we get to see himeko’s big muscles so #oh well 🤷🏻‍♀️ #(i did actually draw it but i wanted to stare at her biceps MORE than i wanted her to have a jacket on)

[xenomorphicdna]

On the string propaganda

Heeellll yeah

Bestie is an entire PLACE

I look at those guys and let me tell you the soul of that thing ain't just in the puppet, it's in all the neurons carrying the thoughts and emotions, it's in the power rails that serve as the heart. All the memories in the memory conflux and all the numbers we see flicker across displays, the flux condensers, the puppet; a little avatar.

No way these massive machines see life the same way we do. They have their own experiences and senses and things they hold dear. A world we can't imagine, a way of living we couldn't even comprehend.

I could never tear an iterator apart to be just a puppet. Who am I to decide how's life supposed to be enjoyed or perceived?

You treat your creechurs however you want- I ain't gonna dictate that. But damn, hearing the thrums and buzzes of the linear systems rail? They are alive with so much power, these mechanical beasts are exactly what they should be.

#sorry im just a really passionate on the string believer #you cant tell me that these massive structures kilometers wide capable of things we cant even image would look at something thats #thats comparable to a speck of dust and be like #yes i would like to rid myself of practically my entire body to be that tiny #this aint no “if i were a supercomputer i'd be sad i couldnt see the sky like i do now” #thats only because you have something to compare it to #if i were to suddenly loose everything to be just some microscopic creature i'd be miserable but only because i know what im loosing #id be loosing the ability to think like i do now id be loosing the ability to enjoy the things i do now #i dont know what life is like as a microscopic creature but i wouldnt be willing to give up my life as i know it now #and i think with iterators are the same #just how different is their life from ours and what things can they see that we are missing out on? #give up everything comfortable and known and for what?? #to feel the sun? they absolutely have various temperature sensors #see the sky? those overseers were made to see things those visuals are in 4k #other animal comforts?? what about computer comforts?? #what makes a lil creature happy may not necessary make a massive supercomputer happy #sorry big rant in the tags um just wanna say this is no hate to anyone who wants their creatures off the string #these are fictional beings and you do whatever makes you happy take them off the string set them loose yess enjoy little robots running #around be happy i love reading ya alls off the string shenanigans #rain world #iterator #drawins #oc veil of dreams #rw talk #rain world oc #iterator oc

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Spider And Her Demons

YA Australian urban fantasy/horror

about a Malaysian-Chinese girl who’s half spider-demon, just trying to keep her head down and survive high school

when she accidentally kills and eats a man in front of the most popular girl at school, they strike up a strange friendship and she starts to learn more about herself and the supernatural world

aroacespec/sapphic ish

#The Spider And Her Demons #Sydney Khoo #loveozya #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #you give me a teenage girl with giant hair spider legs who scuttles across her bedroom wall on page 3 #and then eats a man and i am already sold. #also aus books are always so familiar compared to US books :) #and yes sexuality stuff is ambiguous but basically: a bunch of discussion on relationship hierachies (ie friendship equally/more important) #themes of feeling unlovable bc you're different and different forms of love #multiple times the MC says she has no interest in dating or relationships and also is touch (and maybe sex) repulsed #- but of course that Also has to do with the whole Being A Monster thing #and it definitely shows some kind of attraction to dior - ie looking at her lips/bare skin; blushing; etc #and ends on sort of hand kiss / 'is this something??' vibes #I asked the author and they said they see them as QPR / platonic soulmates but are not at the point where they would know what to call it #which makes total sense to me! #the part of me who wants more obvious aroace YA wishes it was a little more specific #but also I DO love ambiguity and I think it wouldn't be true to the characters #who are clearly not even ready to start figuring that stuff out. #and also. aroacespec sapphics is like. also something i want #also like. I think it's reductive to assume just because 'looks at lips' is a common allo attraction trope....doesn't necessarily mean #it has to be that. yknow. #anyway. i loved it a lot. #gross spidergirl (affectionate)...... #also dior is such an interesting and complex character. like another book could have made her nicer or less fucked up

[quirkle2]

first amv be nicies to me about it or else

#qktalks #new hobby found ! achievement get #there was a lyric at the very start of this song (that i cut out bc it was slow and i wanted it to be a bit crazier) #that says ''i can't seem to stay me'' which was sorta the origin of why i picked this one #so there ya go #the first half is a lil rough ngl.i recognize this and if u make fun of me ill cry right on ur person #i thought i hated editing but it turns out once u have a halfway decent editing program the process Doesn't make u wanna cry #i have another song in mind but im not sure there's rly enough footage of what i want for it ... hrrmm #mob psycho 100 #mob psycho #mp100 #shigeo kageyama #mp100 mob #mp100 shigeo #flashing #<- dunno if it's necessary but just to be sure #i do kinda like that amvs take way less time than most of my other hobbies #like art takes forever building anything in any game takes centuries writing can take a long time depending on the length #but u can kinda just whip up an amv in one sitting if u know what ur doing #i Didn't know what i was doing when making This so it took me a couple days but ! now i know the basics of the program so yay

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

figuring out how to draw him. its surprisingly challenging!

#i love how i saw 'frank is usually if not always frowning' and went Okay So Hes Incredibly Expressive. Cool Thanks- #he is a pain in the ass but also a delight to doodle ya feel me #quickly becoming Very attached to him #his design is soooooo <3<3<3<3 #well. all of the puppet designs are soooo<3<3<3 #but frank's scratches a particular itch i didnt know existed #squidward wants what he has #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home frank #welcome home arg #scribble salad #i need to put him in outfits. I Need To #maybe i should do a '70s outfit showcase' doodle page for all of the neighbors not just wally #i will reiterate #i have never not Once In My Life drawn a specific character / set of characters this much at once #i have filled at least one full doodle page by now #the fact that i can sit and draw them for hours on end until my tablet runs out of juice really says something #half of it is unpostable #since im still puzzling out how to draw half of them and the rest of it is pure nonsense #but by fuck i do be scribbling #i think drawing them is making my art better as a whole #being forced out of your comfort zone by puppets is a Good thing

[acewizardinspace]

I think the 'the jedi use child soldiers' thing is stupid for a lot of reasons, but among those is that this is a complete misunderstanding of how children's media works. Kids want to see themselves doing amazing things and giving that an in depth analysis that boils down to 'all these adults are evil' is poor, bad faith, media criticism.

That being said, if you compare Star Wars to just about any other YA work, the jedi are miles better as far as child care goes. Canonly every single one of these 'kids in danger' has a dedicated adult who is ideally supposed to be with them to teach and protect them. Very uncommon for the genre.

So if people are mad at the jedi for this, I can't fathom what their reaction to other YA literature is. And if they hate YA literature, idk, maybe they shouldn't be reading YA. Just a thought.

#in defense of the jedi #pro jedi #the other reasons the child solider thing is dumb is that most padawans are not children #like ahsoka was considered young. Dooku was what 16 when he became one? Obi-Wan was 25 and knighted earlier than planned #even if they were knighted early because of the war (which i think is stupid and there is no evidence for that) #that doesn't make them all kids... #and the character we see as child padawans are clearly there for children to watch and enjoy #I mean unpredictable things happen but child padawans are not supposed to be facing danger alone #but eased into it by a trusted adult which is not what happens in ever other YA book #Honestly if you hate the jedi for this but don't equally hate every other adult in every other YA book #maybe you are just LOOKING for reasons to hate the jedi. In which case idk maybe examine why that is #and if you do hate all adults in YA maybe it is time to move onto adult literature because you grew up #which is awesome! I love adult books but judging kids media by these standards and hating people for wanting simple stuff #in their book created to be simple is kind of rude you know? #i realize this post is probably hitting a wasp's nest but I mean if you want to take what I say out of context #(because in context I didn't do or say anything wrong) #well that says more about you than me doesn't it #my thoughts

[duncanor]

We are all so focused on Vash VS Legato that I don't feel like we really acknowledge how Vash pretty much asked Livio to kill Elendira.

#trigun #vash #livio the double fang #elendira the crimsonnail #Trimax #Like he didn't say it but it was 100% what's gonna happen and he knew it #He didn't ask Livio to not kill like he used to with Wolfwood #He was so done #And like the way he's says it is funny sure #That bitch made me lose it #But it's also so shocking from him ya know #Like this is the end game. Vash can't afford to play his games anymore #Doesn't have the will to #Doesn't want to risk Livio further than he already is #Idk #Just something I think about sometime

[starbuck]

peace and love to all of those who find joy in attempting to extract a coherent and “correct” narrative from Jenny from Thebes, but, in my opinion personally, a story is true, a story is untrue. as time goes on, it matters less and less.

#ya know? #just for me personally i don’t necessarily want to know 100% of what’s going on all the time… what part of the narrative it is… #whether it even really happened at all! #i just wanna sit down (or pace around frantically) with the characters and FEEL with them - you know? #to ME it all has A World We Survived(?). A World That Is No More energy #and i enjoy it a lot #i have no desire to define it #but again - that’s just me - personal opinion and preferences #and i’m very much not up to date on all the JD commentary so who knows what he’s saying #but i know that he enjoys keeping things vague a lot of the time too - so i imagine we’re somewhat on the same page #jenny from thebes #tmg

[figsandphiltatos]

currently obsessed with everyone's reactions after kristen blurts out that she wants to marry tracker (who she's presumably only been dating for a few months)

#we can all sit here and laugh at kristen sure #but i'm a lesbian. i've looked at wedding venues while in the like. first month of dating someone. i'm not above it #and i dont even know if i WANT to get married in general #there's just some fatal lesbian urge that grips ya sometimes what can i say #kristen applebees #tracker o'shaughnessey #fantasy high sophomore year #fantasy high #fabians expression is maybe my favorite #he looks like he just got punched in the gut