#i’ve been off instagram

[paper-starz]

JULIE!

Been working on a new rendering technique! And who better to test it out on than Julie Joyful herself?

(Read more for a close-up!)

#welcome home #welcome home puppet show #welcome home julie #wh julie #julie joyful #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #I’ve been also trying out different platforms too! #like Bluesky and Instagram #emphasis on trying tho #idk why but the cropping SUCKS in instagram #it keeps chopping Julie’s head off! #and Bluesky… #eh #idk how to feel about Bluesky

[idkwhatimdoingbutpersonal]

Feel like we’re too focused on our favourite ships and/ or the characters we have a crush on to realize that xo kitty isn’t just about love and what ship’s endgame, it’s about kitty learning about her background and discovering herself.

Kitty herself is trying to be her own individual and have her own journey/ adventure (she’s says so herself).

I think that’s why people think Kitty being bi is “random” (it really isn’t but if you wanna be dense that’s your issue). Too focused on who Kitty ends up with and not who she ends up as.

I also think this effects how people look at kitty as “just some white girl koreaboo looking for cute boys in Korea” and think she’s annoying cuz she’s not your perfect self insert (she’s a teenage girl she isn’t supposed to be).

#xo kitty #I don’t have an endgame ship but the obsession with min ho as if he was all that interesting and saying him and Kitty HAVE to be endgame #(specifically on Instagram because people are SO ANNOYING ON THERE UGH LET KITTY BE QUEER DANG) #‘her being bi is so random’ have you ever thought that queer people are real and live real lives and our queerness isn’t some plot device to #make things more interesting #or is something that consistently developed #ALSO IF WE WANNA GO BY STEREOTYPES IT ISNT #kitty argued her way to wearing a suit to her dad’s wedding #come on now #the straights are pissing me off #my posts haven’t been showing up in the xo kitty tag and I’ve posted so much about it so like……. check my other ones if you want

[altairsarts]

Hi! Just a forewarning that this is meant with no malintent!

I saw on that post that you reblogged about misgendering Frisk/Chara/Kris in AUs and your tags saying something about ‘anyone who does that didn’t understand the original story’. I’m not sure if this is entirely true, but I thought that with Frisk and Chara having they/them pronouns (or being nb) in the original game, was to allow a greater variety of people to play and be interested? I thought it was just to be sort of a placeholder, so that if someone who uses he/him plays the game, he could interpret Frisk as a male (for example)?

Also, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want to interact with someone who makes an AU with an altered Frisk/Chara/Kris? If I’m going by my previously mentioned thought, then wouldn’t having an AU of a specifically female Frisk be that creator’s interpretation? But also, AUs aren’t supposed to be like the original, that’s the whole fun of it! If someone makes an AU where Undyne is transmasc and is in a relationship with Papyrus, then would that make a difference? Would that be offensive?

Making an AU is basically making a whole twisted group of OCs based off of characters, so why can’t they take their own creative liberties?

Also, just a side note if it matters, but I’m speaking as a she/they genderqueer.

Hi!! I don’t interact with people a bunch so I wasn’t expecting any questions lmao- but!! I’ll try to explain as best I can.

So the short of it is: they’re not supposed to be taken as a player insert. They exist as characters outside of the player’s influence and this is established for every single one of them. Deltarune even likes to remind you at every chance it gets that Kris isn’t you, and you aren’t them. The idea that they only use they/them pronouns so that people can choose is incorrect because they’re not blank slates.

The idea that these characters would only use they/them pronouns or be nonbinary because it’d allow people to choose is also transphobic because it implies that as long as a person is using they/them pronouns anyone can choose, regardless of whether that person is actually okay with it or not. You can’t go up to someone who uses they/them pronouns and say “you’re a man because I’m a man and I relate to your experiences”, that’s just,,, not how that works at all. Someone, even a fictional character, using they/them pronouns isn’t an automatic pass to choose a set of pronouns for them. This is what you are given, and this is what you use.

I wouldn’t want to interact with someone like that for a couple reasons: the above thing that I just said, being that having a nonbinary identity isn’t a placeholder so that any random stranger can choose what pronouns they’re most comfortable calling you. If you understand that these characters are characters and not inserts and you still decide to disregard the multiple times they’re referred to as they/them then you are being transphobic, and I won’t be around someone who is okay with that.

There’s also the simple fact that I can understand not being aware of Frisk not being a player insert, as it’s not made obvious until the end of the pacifist run, but Kris and Chara don’t have excuses. If you can’t see the obvious multitude of times that it’s shoved in your face then I have to wonder if you’re actually paying attention to the core themes and characterizations, and tenfold for Deltarune. I mean, that’s like half the plot right there: Kris is being possessed and they’re making sure you know they hate it. They’re doing everything they can to scream at you without a voice, “I am my own person, and I don’t want you here.” If you can look at that and think “yea, that’s a character whose entire existence is up to me” then like. What else did you miss???

The reason why it doesn’t work the same way as making Undyne transmasc (to use your example lol) is because you’re not taking anything away from anybody or hurting anybody by doing that. There are not a lot of nonbinary characters out there, and the fact that we’ve gotten three main characters in one franchise is a goddamn miracle. It’s similar to making a canonically gay character straight or a POC character white or a binary trans person cis. You’re taking representation away from a group that needs it.

Also, a lot of people say this all the time, but you wouldn’t do the same for any cis character. Like Sonic, Omori, The Last Of Us, Mario, etc, you won’t say that just because we play as whatever character means that we’re supposed to project our gender onto them. Sunny doesn’t become a girl if a woman plays Omori and decides to call him Lyla Womanname, so why should Kris, Frisk, and Chara?

#not art #Undertale #Deltarune #kris dreemurr #chara dreemurr #frisk undertale #nonbinary #trans #transphobia mention #transphobia in the notes will get you blocked #also ty anon for actually just asking #I see a lot of people getting pissed off about questions #even if there’s no reason to believe they’re not being asked in good faith #like. people aren’t born knowing everything about the world #and if you bar people from asking questions that may be interpreted as offensive how do you expect them to learn #anyway feel free to reblog with your own points if I missed anything #it has been a hot second since I was hyperfixated on UTDR #I’ve got a highlight on instagram under the same name that talks about it a little bit too #so if you wanna go digging to look at that feel free #the highlight is just called IMPORTANT

[vulcannic]

why why whyyyyyy does my art always flop so hard here of all places

#my HOME!!!!! #but like it genuinely makes sad which is stupid #makes me sad* #i’m seeing a lot of artists leaving twitter for tumblr because their art is doing so well here and i’m like #what am i not getting that these people are doing #i’ve been here for like 10 years i know everything there is about this site at this point #man #sorry #i’m just feeling extremely bad #my entire timeline of twitter yesterday was just artists saying they’re deleting all their art off twitter and leaving #on twitter* #and i just don’t know what to do #that’s where i get my reach #that’s how i get most of my print sales #and the place i have the second most reach is instagram which i absolutely despise #and don’t feel comfortable sharing a lot of my art because a bunch of irl people and past employers and people from high school follow me #i would love for things to work out on tumblr #but…. idk what to do anymore #text #delete later

[ofliterarynature]

It’s time to say goodbye to the giant stack of books that’s been living on my bedroom floor! We’ll be making an expedition to HPB soon so I can treat myself to some belated birthday presents :D

#I also got a 15% off birthday coupon last week which sealed the deal lol #the exlib will be going to goodwill #and I held onto a couple things that should sell on eBay I’ve just been to overwhelmed to do it bc *gestures* #here’s to hoping they actually give me good money #and I find things I actually want to buy! #bec posts #2023 #from Instagram

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

i’m allowed to be a jakey hater ok my best friend has a jakey ass boyfriend who doesn’t like me very much. i’ve earned it

#flashing back to high school when my other best friend had a jakey ass bf who absolutely hated me because he thought i was in love with her #which wasn’t even true btw. but he was so fucking weird about showing off their relationship in front of me for some reason #like he was soooo jealous that she liked hanging out with me more than him. dude she’s my friend i’ve known her since 7th grade of course #she likes talking to me more than you. you didn’t even make an instagram post for her bday dude. #he was so annoying seriously. cannot believe they stayed together for a full year of college i was like begging her to dump his ass #god it was awful. maybe i should have been in love with her just to get her away from him goddamn #beth.txt #the first friend mentioned is not in a situation that bad she’s 22 it’s normal #THAT jakey asa boyfriend is only annoying to me because i think he’s boring #he’s like an npc to me idk like he just exists so my friend has a Boyfriend #even when she talks about him no further personality shines through it’s so boring #like good for them they’re happy whatever. i wish he didn’t exist tho

[bibleofficial]

just impulse bought a tattoo book bc it’s specifically sideshow photos & flash 😭😭

#stream #MY CHILDHOOD … MY TATTOO INSPIRATION - LITERALLY 😭😭😭 this is exactly the era i’ve styled myself off of & aspired to since a TODDLER #ALSKALSKALSKAKSJAK like 50$ total … apple pay is soooo PAINFUL it’s TOO EASY #thank u credit cards uwu #love derived bray so much … free museum #opened instagram to send my direct harassment messages #& had a surprise 😍😍😍 #also shoutout to alessandro he did my shoulder devil ALSKALSKLASKAKJSLAKS #bc i cant afford to get tattooed rn … #i’ve been saying i’m going to get my ear pierced again for ages but like … jewelery is like 200$ & the piercing is like 100$ …. like that’s #a tattoo right there 😭😭😭

[crossbackpoke-check]

this is weird, but I know you've talked about the ear piercing thing, so just fyi I think in bordy's new ig stories you can see both his ears?

homie. bestie. bruh. beloved. please insert your preferred endearment here anon this is not weird you are a) always welcome to send me asks about anything and b) 🥺🥺 i love when y’all enable me and send me asks about things which i will probably go screech into a hole about, such as this:

per thom’s insta story 6.23.22, i zoomed in an unreasonable amount of both of his ears and now feel like this :/

[a brief aside: my GOD does he have a crooked smile i’m obsessed with it and also the family resemblance is real]

anyway after much consideration and absolutely Losing it may i present this, which may or may not be but i am choosing to believe is, thomas bordeleau’s pierced left ear (earrings not included)

#thank u for coming to my ted talk or possibly my villain monologue before i am ko’d (thom wears earrings again) #t h o m r i n g ? r i n g ? which hand is the marriage hand someone help me where’s liv when i need her (on twitter) #in other instagram related breakdowns briss made a post and tagged thom as merida and i HATE IT HERE WE ARE THE SAME STOP THAT #my family… actually… jokingly calls me merida when my hair is frizzy… wish i was kidding! i hate it here thom LEAVE ME ALONE #@ thom stop hiding your infected ear piercings with airpods 😠 i Want To See #the white woman math blinking unhinged red string meme of it all #me who cannot tell right from left like: ok but if i reference the thom lightning bolt racing stripe photo he always shows us his right side #because his right profile is better which. king. know your angles BUT if we look at the umich ear piercing photos i am 99% sure the piercing #is in his left ear & most of the photos i’ve seen since then have been side profile based off of camera flip geometry & his right ear #definitely is not pierced but the shape/shadow of his left looks like the indent of a piercing which tracks so either he took it out because #it got infected or he wants it to close up or he just like me fr and frequently just. forgets to wear earrings which tHoM i’m gonna yell @u #about piercing aftercare if that’s true has it been enough weeks for you to have taken it out when you did? or maybe he has a nickel allergy #calling in the experts if u know the answer pls tell me or if your zoom in provides better clarity than my terrible screenshots #IS borde’s ear pierced my vote is yet but also y’all know i’m biased because. #@ thomas bordeleau pierce your ears #i think he should pierce both of them and get constellation piercings and he IS a man that loves jewelry @ thom it’s more to wear 👀👀 #thom’s crooked smileeeeee laying on the floor rolling around giggling i am smitten i’m putting that detail in all the fics ever #also that shirt sure was a choice bud. but i’m not complaining since it gave me #nemcklance #thomas bordeleau my worstie my hatred spirit my incorrigible terrible meow meow #i am not adopting another umich boy this is not gonna be a comtois situation i am not going to be sucked in by thomas bordeleau #have been terribly endeared by his father’s day post and being home for his sister’s prom which im assuming is mad late in the yr bc canada? #keep thinking he needs an eyebrow barbell but also insisting to myself that i didn’t paperdoll him into 1 (i did actually lmao) so on record #left ear: (current lobe) paperdolling bords into a helix or auricle (snug?) cuff and a rook if he gets the helix he can have a conch #on his right ear he needs a daith and four lobe piercings with a forward helix alternately and/or a scaffold if it’s not too crowded #also the way the shadow falls in the second one kinda looks like a snake bite… bordy do that one too & match it with a left eyebrow barbell #although with his crooked mouth now idk like is it gonna wreck the effect or just draw more attention to it? maybe no snake bite but… #kinda love the idea of a smiley 4 him half of it showing out also his teeth are so nice i’m kinda mad about it like??? how are they so white #liv in the replies

[tytrack]

what is joe biden’s plan to make sure i wake up 3 hours before i actually have to

#i want to live that life where i have a whole day in my morning where i get to make my coffee and read a short something in peaceful bliss #instead i wake up exactly right before i’m supposed to get to class #i am proud to announce i’ve been off tiktok for over a week #would like to go on it again but i want to hold off for as long as i can 😌 #also instagram but it’s not hard not being on that app at all

[linesinyourpalm]

they removed the home button and replaced it with the SHOP, how the god damn fuck am I gonna get back HOME?

#but actually i’m mad bc i’m so tired of how rapidly tumblr is trying to commodify so many different elements of the site/app of #long ads so when i scroll on mobile i accidentally open the link #every #single #time #i’ve been seeing more blazed posts then ever #sectioning off the recommended and tending portion of the app makes it work more like instagram #and i can’t navigate anything the same on mobile no more

[star-crossed-lizards]

Also I’ve been thinking and I think that I’m very isolated and have a hard time making friends cuz ppl can tell I’m trans and they aren’t necessarily transphobic in the hatred sense but they’re scared of “offending” me or something so they won’t hang out w me. Same w my bf ppl always are friendly to him and swap instagram handles or something and then never interact w us again and like both of us just post pretty landscape/nature pics so idk what’s off putting otherwise. I don’t talk about being trans irl unless someone else asks me about it so idk how ppl can tell but I feel like that must be it cuz I thought it was from my autism but I’ve been reading books about socializing for autistic people and I already do all that stuff and I don’t struggle w a lot of the things listed in those books (like not getting into loud arguments in public type shit) (no shade if you struggle w that I just don’t know wtf I do that’s off putting I can’t figure it out)

#I know that neither of us are pushy about it too like idk how come an interaction will seem successful and then #ppl don’t want to interact w us again #wtf are they seeing us post that turns them off. i literally have a farmcore instagram cuz I work on a farm. #I know for sure this is why some of my coworkers act weird around me and suddenly started avoiding me #I thought it was cuz I was stinky cuz I’ve been showering less w no water #but then my boss asked me very nicely to confirm my pronouns and I was like. ah. you have all been talking about me and speculating wildly. #like I am JUST a guy I’m a gay dude. I’m just a dude. I’ve never said or done anything in front of them to imply otherwise #like what my water bottle is purple? I wear nail polish sometimes? I have earrings?

[slightly-awkward-sunshine]

Screaming crying throwing up my work just dECIdEd that we get one week off for Xmas instead of two

#I’ve been at this job since JANUARY thinking you myself hey this sucks but at least we get two weeks off in December!! #people who work from home or work for themselves I’m literally green w jealousy rn #Maeve talks #:( #why can’t I just be an illustrator yet #😭😭😭 #I wanna be living my dreammmm #I wanna be one of those cutesy Instagram artists that run a shop and make work and get to grow their art style

[empathetic]

Going through a friendship heartbreak is like so so so painful. I don’t know what the status of my friendship is with them. But none of them reached out to me when I had posted that I got covid and wasn’t feeling great. Even though they started the fucking conflict and treated me like shit. And at least if we are in this period of purgatory u could still reach out about my health!

#this is also why I’m on here a lot I don’t want to go on Instagram and see them living their lives and ignoring me #these are my closest friends. without them I have like 2 close people in my life basically. n one of them is sisters with one of them #I’ve been having so many suicidal thoughts recently n I can’t shake them no matter how much I try #my mind races and I can go down so many pathways at once #i could think about bettering myself and killing myself at the same time #it’s so nightmarish and I wish I could just turn my brain off because I can’t take it anymore #suicide tw

[phaedra777]

A WIP from today

#been journaling a lot since 2022 started (well the middle of 2021) and now I’ve been recently doodling in my journal more #and it’s been helping me to creatively express myself more #even if it’s drawing something from adventure time or something and copying a scene in the show or character #art #drawing #drawings #artwork #traditional sketch #traditional drawing #sketch #sketching #this is something I found off Instagram #I didn’t copy the reference photo completely #the reference is a photo shoot #artblr #drawblr #been feeling inspired by high fashion photography and editorial makeup #and angels and faeries #mine

[vintageghoststories]

btw I want u all to know that it has been barely like 24hours I think since I started using tumblr again and I’m so much more insane. my voice is a bit deeper as well u guys have retransgendered me

#u guys don’t understand #I’ve been living off of stupid 2017 tumblr #on instagram #but in instragame I can’t even say woman r hot bc there r so many homophobic classmates that follow me there #anyways i miss being a little freak #it’s so nice just being some guy. but also a freak and insane<3

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Begging people to stop reblogging this AI trash from “The Phantom Painter” on Instagram (instagram.com/phantom.painting). I’ve been seeing it on my dash more and more often from people who are otherwise anti-AI and either can’t tell it’s AI or don’t care because it looks cool.

This is the kind of shit that is VERY CLEARLY trained on the works of existing talented artists’ with distinct styles and this asshole is selling prints and making a profit off of stealing other people’s hard work.

Don’t give people like this money or attention and they will go away.

Please, if you’re going to buy art prints, buy them from an actual artist.

#anti AI art #anti AI