#i'm leveling up

[ghostinthegallery]

But seriously necrons are queer AF...

I basically can't shut up about necrons and how they really lend themselves to queer theory/queer interpretation and I want to dive into that a little. I am not An Intellectual by any means, so someone else could definitely do this better, but an imperfect hero is better than none (there's a joke about Trazyn on Cadia here but I'm too lazy to flesh it out).

I'm more interested in how a) Queer Theory is all about challenging the default cishet lens through which the majority of media is created/analyzed/consumed and b) the fact that necron existence is basically 12 Queer Metaphors in an Trenchcoat

Necrons come to the table raising some interesting narrative questions: how does a being exist without a soul? What even IS a soul? What is mortality? How does all of that relate to the mind and to the body?

Biotransference, when you get right down to it, took the three basic parts of what we might think of as "the self" (mind, body, soul) and divided them. The soul vanished, while the body and mind remained, but the relationship between them was completely recontextualized. So all those big questions above can only be answered in that context. This ties so beautifully into themes of queer experience because queerness also invites a reimagining of the spirit/mind/body relationship. How the body relates to identity and vice versa. How that combination relates to other people. Any singular "default" answer of x body=y identity=z mental state does not exist for necrons. How can it when each individual deals with their own existence in such varying ways? From denial to distraction to euphoric acceptance, and each individual's character is largely defined by that choice.

This can be more explicitly LQBTQ-themed (my kingdom for a story about Anathrosis, the canonically trans dynasty Matriarch) or metaphorical. It can dwell on inner conflict or external conflicts. This separation was not something they chose, but it is a fundamental fact of their existence. You basically have no choice but to tell queer stories with necrons if you want to explore their nature/characters in any depth.

Tl;dr all the space robots are gay and also disasters and sorry that's just canon

#necrons #necron #warhammer 40k #queer theory i guess #ghost does character rambles #but like all the characters at once #I'm leveling up #Anathrosis novel when? #i just think they're neat #getting my doctorate in Gay Robots

[lienwyn]

For several years now I’ve felt like I haven’t been drawing as much as I’d want so, during 2022, one of my goals was to draw at least one drawing each month. It didn’t have to be complex or even good — a sketch was more than enough — as long as I drew something.

And I’m happy to announce that I reached my goal — I even drew quite a lot during some months! So here are my favourites from each month of this past year.

Clearly, something happened during those final couple of months because, uh, wow. Okay. That sure is something. It will definitely be interesting to see what 2023 has in store for me and my art.

I’ll have the same goal next year! See you then! :D

#Art #Summary of Art #Art Progress #Like #Whoa #What the heck happened this year? #In a good way #I can suddenly do extreme photo realism #I mean #Some part of me might have known that subconsciously #But it still took me by surprise #I'm leveling up

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

#''but i just want to use it to--'' don't care! it's shit! stop fucking feeding it! #if you need help generating ideas or jumping off points then join an artist or writer group online #talk to people #make connections #that's what art and writing is supposed to be about in the first place #i'm mad as hell etc. #so goddamn sick and tired of seeing ai shit get passed around on here #it's bad enough in general but every time i see more of it showing up #tagged as fan art or as fic #the angrier i get #heartfelt imperfection in art and writing will always ALWAYS be worth more than the most technically ''perfect'' ai generated image or text #fandom problems #ai generation algorithms die in a fire challenge 2k23 #just a heads up that i'm muting this post and will no longer see responses to it #because i'm tired of seeing dogshit takes from jackasses who want to ''debate'' me #there's no debate you're in the wrong on literally every level and you can die mad about it

[ranseur]

actual scene as it happened in the show

#gos2spoilers #spoilers #good omens #good omens spoilers #hopefully i tagged enough for blacklists #ransart #everyone is typing up beautiful meta analyses and painting beautiful art and i'm here like... #thinking non stop about this part LOL #i just love it; how many does he have? how long is the cooldown period for this 9th level cleric spell #no want sad; only fun

[very-uncorrect]

I click off immediately

#it's an immediate ick for me #like if you can't stick to the canon pronouns of a character I'm not gonna listen to your theory #it's such a surface level thing and it's actually important to the story that their gender isn't up to interpretation #if you can't grasp that then your theory is probably grasping at straws too #deltarune #kris deltarune #kris dreemurr

[tanjir0se]

Zelda having a secret room for when she "needs to concentrate" carries with it the implication that it's Link that makes it difficult to concentrate, since they pretty clearly lived together between BOTW and TOTK. A lesser zelink shipper would turn this into something romantic but I'm operating on a higher wavelength.

"Zelda Zelda Zelda look at this cool rock I found don't you think it looks like a frog? Hey Zelda do you think I could climb all the way to the ceiling without falling hey hey Zelda listen to this *makes horse noise* doesn't that sound just like Epona I'm really good at horse noises hey Zelda Zelda Ze-

#'but link doesn't talk--' begone. you don't know him like i do #you can still be annoying in sign language!!!! #i could make this sad by saying that he wants to talk to her as much as he can to make up for lost time #for so long she was just a ghost to him #so he had to save up all the cool stuff to tell her until he got her back #resulting in...this #totk #zelink #i'm operating on levels mere mortals could never understand #next up why Link would love minecraft youtubers

[hiimbloblos]

Everything that promotes LGBT will now be banned: a rainbow without a light blue stripe, all kinds of themed patches, badges on clothes, as well as parades, processions, rallies and themed parties.

For that - up to 12 years in prison.

Hi! What! Literal murder can get you 2 to 8 years in prison. Killing a man gives you less years! Hello! Can anybody fucking hear me!

Updating this post because. WELL. If anyone, ANYONE supports LGBTQIA in here. Even if they're the straightest people ever. THEY FALL UNDER THE SAME CATEGORY. LGBTQIA ALLIES ARE CONSIDERED EXTREMISTS TOO.

Moreover, everyone could get in trouble - even if the person isn't an activist or part of LGBTQ, but speaks out that LGBTQ people must have equal rights with everyone else.

You can get in trouble for a LGBTQ-symbolic repost from 10 years ago - if the policemen can capture it after Supreme Court's decision will take effect.

And another update: this "law" will only be valid after January 10, 2024

The court decision will come into force on January 10 of the following year - unless an appeal is filed.

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #russia #bloblopost #HELLO????? #I'll delete this later because it's not that. fucked up. if you consider that these very people decided that they needed #to wreak havoc on Ukraine #but rn the feelings of anxiety are almost on the same level as they were in the beginning of the war #upd. I'm not deleting the post but I made so many translating mistakes that it's embarrassing #Anyway. thank you to fellas who corrected me.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

As we approach the next arc in the story, an outfit change is now on the horizon! The question is, what are our lads going to wear?

(Please also vote in the Lan Wangji poll!)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #outfitting arc #poll #Reminder that these outfits are just for the next arc #so they are sticking around for a while but will change later #I love wwx's outfits in The Untamed a lot (there are so many fun variations!) and I cherry picked some of my favourite elements #alas. I am limited in the level of detail that I can add. #but man oh man....this is already a huge step up from where I started. #wwx finally gets to have sleeves....his arms are staying warm #I honestly had a blast coming up with these 4 outfits and I'm very curious to see which one will win! #PLEASE feel free to blast me some constructive criticism too #I *am* doing this to learn (as well as have fun) #forgive me for not having these polls linked until later

[concidineart]

“What did you do?!” Was feeling some way about fWhip and his salmon. He put the souls of the slaughtered into mechs and no one talks about it.

#mcyt #empires smp #fwhip #esmp s1 #salmon #mecha #every now and then I'm reminded about Jimmy wanting to kill off all the salmon #and go a little feral about fWhip defending them #like on a meta level do i know fwhip probs just wanted to troll jimmy? yes #but also jimmy's campaign against fish we find out later may be sentient is messed up

[egophiliac]

I was going to wait and poke at this a bit more, but the excitement of Upcoming Episode 7 took over. :') so here's one of my alt ideas for Silver's UM poster! this time with more Diasomnia-appropriate colors (that said, you can tear the pink fluffy clouds away from my cold dead hands)

I also recorded this one, for anyone who's interested in that kind of thing! it includes all my fuckups and changing my mind and spending forever adding details before deciding it looks better without, so, uhhh, enjoy my failures! (I kept trying to draw in his jacket details...it never worked...) also featuring lots of drawing on the wrong layer, forgetting how jackets work, and the black censor boxes of continually forgetting to turn off pop-up notifications. hope you like watching me draw birds!

here it is, combined and compressed down to about 10 minutes long (with a warning for flickering and flashing colors from sped-up zooming/layer changes): [ link ]

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #eyestrain #not pictured: every time i had to stop working on it for the day because i was getting so mad at it #and honestly if i don't post this now i'm going to hate it too much to ever post it so HEY here we are #we're not going to talk about the ring. we just aren't. #genuinely the hardest part of this style is trying not to overdo it #something i struggle with a lot...as you can see 🫠 #i actually don't normally do color thumbs (or at least not to that level) #but the bird overlay and the dark jacket against a dark background made me so nervous #and then i ended up changing basically every color anyway #whoops

[femmespoiled]

hi, I'm here to tell you that lesbians should be way meaner, we're not nearly mean enough

#time to level up the hater vibes beloveds #random stuff #I'm talking unhinged. get into it

[heybiji]

he has a library card

#sketch #artists on tumblr #doodles #original character #ocs #antonio salvo #tony salvo #true strike #truestrike #masks: a new generation #masks: overlook #masks: overlook city #npc #ruth and tony #i'm normal about him #superheroes #books aren't fragile so he spent a lot of time around them growing up #though the plates the librarian gives him treats on are fragile and fling him into anxiety as he has to try very hard not to break them #long story short he has super strength he's not confident in controlling so he is afraid of breaking everything #trying to achieve that saltburn level of desire

[merrigel]

So it turns out my sharpshootin’ pirate fighter Aveline might have a bit of magic in her after all ⚡️⚡️⚡️

#artists on tumblr #dnd #d&d #animation #dungeons and dragons #actually hey since I already got my laptop up lemme give y'all a lil like #before and after LMAO #still v pleased with this lil loop hehehe #oc #aveline blackwood #eagerly looking forward to when I can get my grubby little hands on that level in sorcerer #spellcasting my beloved #cape curiosity #have I made a tag for that?? loorrddd I'm gonna have some Organizing to do over here

[chelsiegeorgia]

I then spend the next half hour levelling him up 

#I love when you stop moving and all the koco you've collected just materialise around you #sonic the hedgehog #sonic frontiers #sonic frontiers spoilers #sonic #seriously why does it take elder koco so long to level you up #i just wanna go faster old man! #I've almost finished my 100% playthrough #just gotta get one more achievement #get phantom rush 50 times #this is the first sonic game I've ever S ranked every level #I'm so proud #just gotta get through bullet hell then I'm home free #art #fanart #doodles

[alphabetcompletionist]

they should put me in notpr0n. <!--my abcs and 123s-->

ABCDE HI LMNOP RSTU Y

17/26

#and per se and #i'm on level 23 and i'm fairly stupid so who knows if i'll get past it #yes the sites still up #i only got to 10 last time i played so i call this a win anyway

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Up High!

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #'I'm going to truncate this episode' -> immediately draws a second comic about Xue Yang's arm getting ripped off #This was the original no.88 and i think i COULD have merged them but I rather reflect then fully re-do it. #The crushed up candy in XY's hand makes me miserable and melancholic. So I need to make it funny. #The callousness at the candy is so interesting to me. I think on some level he understands why #but he's equally disgusted by Xue Yang's actions at this point #WWX in general has *no* tolerance for twisted affections. 'Don't care if you fell in love. Get Better Asshole.' #Kind of a consistent motif in how he reacts to other peoples feelings of affection #maybe his own too? Later in this episode and ep4 we see him very conflicted about his own affections #god maybe he earnestly doesn't really understand affection in any form. This....this makes sense. #not even going to get into the yumeng sibling drama. That's prob the most affection he allows and even then....its a mess.