#dead dead LOL

[magnusbae]

that moment you get a hangover after a wine & draw night but you also get this:

#Destruction is a :3 character don't even look at me #he's now my little silly meow meow we had bonded over drink #it was an accident but now he's my silly :3 baby #he absolutely did get the special girl anime eyes treatment and i regret nothing at all #fucked off for bazillion years without telling anyone and then came back to party isn't it a mood #the ass sparkles might not have made the cut but they live in my heart non stop #mayhemspreadingguy #i dont manage to WORK that long without breaks #we literally did a full work day of art XDDDDDDD #dead dead LOL #destruction of the endless #buns.ds

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

#personal #dumb #my art #immediately after finishing i was pumped to watch some analysis vids on it #cuz i heard a lot of the drama about the original author being a pro military fascist and the director going “fuck that” and making a satir #scrolling through youtube search results was not promising. lots of male film buffs i would Not trust even on a first glance. #“The Critical Drinker” (pfp of a bearded man drinking alcohol) lol. #and then I saw cinemawins did a video on it and was like oh nice i haven't seen his stuff in a while but he's a pretty leftist creator #scrolled through the comments #second panel face #this sucks i'm outta here. #just leagues and leagues and leagues of anime pfps and right leaning people dogpiling on him for “not understanding what fascism is” #idk it's pretty alien and weird to me watching this movie and going “wow yeah that was pretty obvious huh” like literally the from opening #to the teacher preaching militance and only giving voting rights to “those who serve their nation first and earn it” #and then seeing droves of people online going #WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? It's not anti-fascist and even if it was it's #the director's fault for desecrating heinlein's incredible sci-fi epic vision. ermm media literacy is dead.

[dapper-lil-arts]

and somehow, that only makes her fall in love more

#i had a version of this where she was ranting about dead space 2 #and one where shes ranting about kid icarus uprising lmao #decided to go for borderlands the pre-sequel instead lol #MLP #my little pony #friendship is magic #twilight sparkle #sunset shimmer #pony posting #sunset sparkle #equestria girls #scitwi #twiset #sciset #shipping #love these girls so much #and their wardrobe rocks #could have done the rant about a lotta thing #lol #lord forgive me the next art might um. similar to the last rarity and applejack one i did last.

[thedarkacademian]

brought a poem to the gun fight

#or is it a knife fight #i forget the saying lol #dark academia #dead poets society #the secret history #chaotic academia #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #classic academia #aesthetic #the dark academian

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#dead #it’s me #meme #memes #tweet #tweets #twitter #funny #lol

[hugs-and-stabbies]

okay i dont wanna wait to post aksjdhf you guys are getting it before twt does hehe ♥

#thank you razorvine for the encouragement 💪💪💪 #dead plate #rody lamoree #vincent charbonneau #dead plate game #rodince #? is that the ship name? #suggestive #my art #posting this at 1:30 am 🥴 #spent pretty much my whole evening and night working on it lol

[spicy-apple-pie]

Dick is a fucking millennial in a family full of gen z godbless him

(also, opinions on the font?)

#batman #batman comcis #batman dc #dc #dc comics #dick grayson #richard grayson #nightwing #tim drake #red robin #cringe #cringe is dead #but not if you're a millenial #lol #batman fan comics #fan comic #fanart #batman fanart #illustration #digital illustration #digital art #clip studio paint

[aeymii]

🍷✨

#dead plate #dead plate game #vincent charbonneau #rody lamoree #vincerody?? #rodent lol #vincent x rody #I guess #rody dead plate #dead plate spoilers #vincent dead plate #art #anyways #IT WAS BEAUTIFUL #loved that game #the plot was well written #and the horror was great!!<33 #cw: knife #cw: blood #cw: cannibalism

[lazypapers]

Man Purse

#hangover #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #my art #animatic #charles smith #arthur morgan #fanart #john marston #javier escuella #lol #funny

[allysketches]

in his primadonna girl* era 😌✨

(*playing the damsel in distress and getting locked in a tower in the middle of the french revolution so his boyfriend can rescue him from being beheaded 😏)

#good omens #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens fanart #my art #neil gaiman #what is this... me?? posting on a regular time and not in the dead of night???? no way #anyway he is the best #in his sassiest era #also can you tell I can't draw the complex ruffle design or whatever it's called to save my life?? lol #hope it came across as an artistic choice #not incompetence (which it is)

[sharkfinn]

Dead Ringer

"Screaming.

It’s the first thing he’s aware of..."

Here's my submission for @ecto-implosion !!!

And a link to the amazing fic @browa123 wrote based on it!!!!! It's REALLY well done, it was sooo fun working with you and I couldn't have hoped for a better end result 💚

Thanks for having me!! I've had this idea for years and finally got to use it for something COOL, I'll definitely participate again if there's another implosion in the future. I met so many talented people

#ectoimplosion2023 #ectoimplosion #danny phantom event #danny phantom #danny fenton #dp fanart #dp art #danny phantom comic #danny phantom fanfiction #phanart #sam manson #tucker foley #separate fenton and phantom #split fenton and phantom #dead ringer #sharkfinnarts #sharkfinn #browa123 #i was so obsessed with putting as many tiny details and headcanons into this as i could lol #anyway seriously go read the fic its so well set up i was kicking my feet and screamin

[kokodrawings]

Artober day 3!

#artober 2023 #inktober #minato namikaze #kakashi hatake #namikaze minato #hatake kakashi #naruto shippuden #naruto #artists on tumblr #digital art #koko draws #I find the idea of a 15 yo baby jounin training a 5 yo baby genin absolutely hilarious #people probably though Minato was the one taking the chunin exams instead of Kakashi LOL #I know this was retconned like 95% of the cool things about part 1 naruto #you can pry them from my cold dead hands though ~

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#the camera pan to taylor swift during this part of ayo's speech #dead #poetic cinema #lol #taylor swift #ayo edebiri #the bear #golden globes #golden globes 2024 #love #mood #so real for this #relatable