#is the ability to create

[lesbianvillain]

one. One more comparison picture.

I’ve come a long way with my fursuit making skills even on just my 4th suit. Confetti will always be special bc she was my first and I poured a lot of love into her but I don’t think I will wear her ever again. She a real one tho.

#im emo about how happy I am with mysterie #finishing this project brought me a lot of joy and excitement #I can’t wait to make more! and improve even further! #just remember kids….don’t give up on your projects even if you don’t think they will look good #even with confetti! I was so happy with her at the time despite her flaws #like damn I made this. #and even if your first try is shit and this goes for anything really #just keep going!! keep creating!! that’s the most wonderful thing about existing #is the ability to create #to share your heart with the world in whatever form you choose

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

#writeblr #warm up #this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru #but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist #ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school. #like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it. #was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes. #but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create'' #when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work #part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just #like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent. #speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r #ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week #this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice. #''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism #imagine if we said that about literally any other profession. #''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt? #u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky'' #we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY #''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''

[bovivinator]

Re-listened to TAZ Balance recently and I’m still in awe that Griffin McElroy somehow managed to introduce a “long-lost twin of protagonist who had selective amnesia about them” character so late in the story, so successfully that she not only featured in some of the most thrilling and emotional moments of the series, but immediately became wildly popular and caused most of the fanbase to spontaneously develop crushes on her

#all of us out here wishing we were barry #she would make a fumbling mess out of me too i just know it #the mcelroys have many gifts #but chief among these is the ability to create the most cunt-serving badass female characters in existence #the adventure zone #taz #taz balance #lup taaco #taz lup #mcelroys #griffin mcelroy #queenly quips

[nerdpoe]

Danny decides to render the Anti-Ecto acts useless. He goes a little Villain-y.

He uses his ghost abilities to get shit tons of ecto and dump them in the water supplies of large cities.

If everyone is Liminal, then the laws have to be revoked. Right?

...

...Right?

Meanwhile in an apartment in Metropolis, Clark and Lois stare at each other in shock as she hovers a solid three feet off the ground.

On her own.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #superman #lois lane #danny phantom #danny fenton #and yes #bruce does receive an emergency call from clark asking if having uh #fun times #with a human #would be enough to like contaminate said human #bruce is dealing with almost every single Gothamite suddenly materializing abilities #and using them to try to bypass notorious Gotham traffic #and accidentally creating whole new traffic areas #and he doesn't have time to deal with clark's awkward sex ed questions #“go ask your hologram father kal” #“but unless you've fucked every single person in Gotham AND Lois that's not what's happening”

[caffstrink]

So like what's those brain rats called? Bc mine just died and idk what to write on his tombstone

#in loving memory of my ability to create #me #original

[transingthoseformers]

Dude I NEED you to elaborate on that insecticon queen x OP post I’m BEGGING YOU

Look

Loooook

I've been obsessed all day with the queen hitting on optimus and everyone else giving her the side eye because that is the prime she's talking about, while Optimus is bouncing on his pedes stars in his optics because he's already thinking of the possibility for an alliance with benefits

After all

It's not every day you encounter a mech that much taller than you at his size (god she can't even fit in the autobot base can she?? Is she too damn tall?) who is also so down bad for you.

Extra points if this is a universe where primes used to be associated with fertility in some more salacious versions of their society long forgotten... except by the Insecticons and Optimus himself

Also loving the idea of ovipos here because after all, a queen's job is to expand the colony, and here's Optimus fucking jumping at the opportunity to be pumped full of eggs for the sake of their mutual species. After all, the war hit their species hard. Might as well start to increase their numbers

Strengthen the very valuable alliance with the Insecticons, especially since numbers wise this woukd be an absolute game changer in the war against the Decepticons.

I've been seeing a lot of breeding optimus in the valveplug tag so i just have to add my own card into it

Extra points if Ratchet the entire time is like "goddamn it Orion this is not the time" but it issss thoughhhh

Several of the autobots have never seen Optimus so happy in their lives

OO O O O Extra points if this is blended continuity for the sake of also disappointed Prowl, disappointed Ultra Magnus, and very supportive Jazz

Megatron will never admit that something about seeing Optimus filled with another's spawn turns him on (is it jealousy? If so, of which angle? Ideas)

#valveplug #Optimus prime #unnamed oc #ratchet #jazz #ultra magnus #prowl #the party poopers begrudgingly admit this is working #i love the idea of an idw style matrix being recognized for its ability to create #canon x oc #Megatron #who is jelly of Optimus #Insecticon queen au

[inquisitor-apologist]

Thinking about how, at the end of the day, at the fatal moment, the sunset of the Republic, it wasn’t Yoda, or Obi-Wan, or even the Chosen One himself standing in the way of Palpatine. It was Mace Windu.

Mace Windu, the inventor of Vaapad and Master of Form VII, the Jedi's strongest duelist, the only person to ever defeat Palpatine in combat. Mace Windu, Master of the Jedi Council and the youngest Master ever appointed to it, the revered leader of the Order. Mace Windu, who forgave even those who tried to kill him, who risked his life over and over again for his troops, who, after 3 years of desperate war, tried to negotiate with battle droids. Mace Windu, who knew the clones were created by the Sith and chose to trust them, who saw every Shatterpoint in the Republic, and loved it still, and fought for it until his last breath, until he was betrayed by Anakin, who he believed in and trusted despite everything.

Mace Windu, High General and hero of the Republic, the embodiment of the Light, the last and greatest champion of the Order, the best Jedi to ever live.

#I’ve said my piece goodnight #don’t play with me Mace Antis I have receipts for every last one of these #pretty much everyone agrees that he was the best duelist there was and he obviously won the fight #Anakin's choice wouldn't make thematic sense otherwise #also vader did not defeat palpatine in combat sorry he just grabbed him while he was distracted #it literally had to be a fair fight and Anakin had to be the one to choose to create the empire that's what the prequels are about #Star Wars databank calls him ‘revered’ shatterpoint tells us he was the youngest (real) member of the council #Boba Fett (tcw) and Prosset Dibs (comics) tried to kill him and he asked for amnesty and forgave them #literally just watch the Ryloth arc he spends most of his screentime saving his men #in tcw season seven he pleads with the battle droids to surrender hoping that no one else has to die #there's the part near the end of tcw where the council realizes that the clones were created by Dooku but Mace and the rest of the council #trust the clones so much they're willing to ignore it #the scene from Mace's POV in the rots novelization talks about how much he loves the republic and how he was blindsided by Anakin's betraya #because he trusted him!! we see in aotc that he has more faith in Anakin's abilities than Obi-wan #and he defeated the most powerful sith of all time single-handedly #BEST JEDI EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! #sw prequels #star wars prequels #prequel trilogy #sw prequel trilogy #star wars prequel trilogy #sw rots #star wars rots #revenge of the sith #star wars revenge of the sith #galactic republic #pro mace windu #mace windu #pro jedi order #pro jedi

[springtrappd]

marta svetek -- voice of gregory, vanny, roxanne wolf in fnaf: sb and its dlc, ruin -- has joined kellen goff in voicing her thoughts on ai reproductions of her voice. again: if you want voice actors to maintain a living wage (and their own mental health), please respect her wishes and ensure that this kind of behaviour is heavily discouraged in the future.

full text of thread below the cut for brevity:

Been getting tagged in all kinds of posts and popular TikToks of people using AI voice clones of my FNAF characters to have them sing or say all kinds of random stuff. You might think it's fun. But really it's contributing to the problem all VAs are facing in the wake of AI. The more these AI voice clones get used, the more they're normalized, and the more businesses see it as a viable alternative to real VAs when making content for you. Slowly but surely, most of your favourite VAs will be out of work. Not to mention what this will cost in terms of future generations of VAs. Incredible performances we'll never get to experience because most businesses will more often than not go for the cheapest, quickest option as soon as the technology is up to scratch. This is made even worse by the fact that we currently have very few legal protections against the unauthorized use of our voices using AI. And we're being pressured to waive those too, for a fraction of their worth. This is one of the big reasons the current strikes are a thing. If you enjoyed my work in FNAF and have any respect for the amount of time and effort VAs put into bringing characters to life, don't use AI voice clones in your fanart. I can't express how violated I feel every time I hear my voice say words that aren't my own. And just in case it wasn't clear - I have never consented to having my voice, likeness or any of my performances synthesized into AI voices/avatars etc.

#fnaf #five nights at freddy's #roxanne wolf #fnaf gregory #fnaf roxy #vanny #discourse #speaking! #no your funnie tiktoks and fangames #are not worth violating the bodies of other human beings #no not even if you're broke. #ch/rist alive guys. #vas are human beings who deserve basic respect #as well as the ability to freely live their life #and create their art #support workers. support artists. support strikes. #your actions have consequences. let them be good ones.

[drachenmagier]

I find posts of people who complain about how they don't want to learn how to draw rather funny.

Sweetheart… it's too late for that. You can already draw.
 Absolutely everybody can draw.

And your worst drawings will always be the ones you didn't try to make.

Prints and Commissions BSKY - Insta - Kofi - Mastodon - Carrd 

#drachenmagier #fantasy #traditional art #artists on tumblr #because the ability to create is fucking magical #You can turn an electric impuls in your brain into art. I dare you to try to claim that's not magic.

[anakinh]

sephiroth criticizes your gameplay

bonus:

#me.txt #?? #ffvii #ffvii rebirth #sephiroth #final fantasy #final fantasy vii #popular #i know he's basically training 'cloud' but it's very funny #it would also be hilarious if he said these things in an actual boss battle against him #sephiroth: git gud #people would fly into a rage #also sephiroth's gameplay is so interesting #at this point he's a Regular Dude but he has the ability to do sword beams and to flash step #and also create materia out of pure mako? #this training stuff is also kinda cute because suddenly it's like sephiroth is purposefully not one-shotting everything #so cloud can get some experience

[greatestjubilee]

bleh

#hi all. lucy here #i have barely been drawing lately because ive just been unable to #like i feel like i lost my spark. i dunno #i used to draw so much and make so many comics when i was absolute rock bottom mentally #like the funnier i was the worse i was doing #ive been better lately but i truly feel like ive almost sacrificed my ability to draw or create stuff for some more mental stability #i just....i dont know. i feel like i can't do anything i used to do with art. like im not funny or have no ideas or just think stuff like #oh ill just draw this because people will wanna see it #but i gave that up because not even i wanna see it anymore #i hope that i can feel like drawing again one day i just dont know how to get it back. it really feels like ive lost a major part of myself #this is my rambling here just to let you know i am still around just kind of laying low because im drained

[nicedracula]

KISS ME, [[Pygmalion]]

#art #abba reference in the fic title. pygmalion ref in the fic itself. #uncanny ability to create an ephemeral atmosphere while still mimicking spamton's weird speech. divorce. #gift for a friend's fic :D

[blakeblueboi]

The sitchie being bullying Harry and the impies being his big fat crush on one (1) Harry Potter

Please this was so funny in my head

#harry potter fandom #draco malfoy #harry potter funny #Harry potter crack #crack #humor #plz appreciate my meme creating abilities #harry potter fanart #pansy parkinson #drarry #draco x harry #harry x draco

[hamartia-grander]

It's fine to be disappointed about not seeing the Lords, but dear God stop shitting on the DLC because of it. Just because you wanted to see them doesn't mean it was gonna happen. This DLC isn't about the Lords, and it never was. It's about Rose. It's about her journey to accepting her powers, accepting that she's a little weird but that's OKAY and it's worth it because she can do cool things and she has the best dad ever. Overcoming her insecurities, learning to care for herself and know she's worth love because Ethan loves her so fucking much. It's about Rose learning more about herself. It's about Rose getting to talk to her dad, just once. Getting to hear him say "I love you". It's about Rose learning more about the events that led to her father sacrificing himself to save her, which she was apparently never told. It's about Rose gaining confidence in herself, in her abilities. It's about Rose finding a passion to fight back, to survive, to not conform. It was never about the Lords.

#This GAME is about the Winters family not Heisenberg lmao #resident evil #resident evil 8 #resident evil village #shadows of rose #Resident evil shadows of rose #Rose winters #Ethan Winters #Shadows of rose spoilers #It also wouldn't make sense bc Miranda would've had to recreate them and... Why would she do that lol she knows they're failed vessels #The whole point was Miranda testing her ability to make her own vessel for Eva by testing it on the Duke and the Rose copies #It'd be a waste to create the lords and for what purpose? #RE8 dlc #RE8 DLC spoilers #Resident evil shadows of rose spoilers #Resident evil 8 spoilers #Resident evil village spoilers #Resident evil 8 DLC spoilers #Trying to cover all the bases so I don't spoil anyone #Resident evil village DLC spoilers #Resident evil 8 shadows of rose spoilers #Resident evil village shadows of rose spoilers

[transformers-synergize]

soundwave with his 2 lil minbots cassettes and 3 minicons cassettes

A high-ranking decepticon only outranked by Megatron himself, Soundwave is smart, logical, efficient , loyal, and one of the most dangerous decepticons out there, co-leading the decepticons stranded on earth with Starscream. though often he and Startscream are working against each other rather than with each other. Starscream wants to run things differently, while Soundwave wants to continue fallowing Megatron's old orders until they can get back in contact with Cybertron and get new orders from Megatron.

Though Soundwave's dry, monotone way of speaking and efficient way of carrying out tasks might make you think he is not the creative type, he is actually quite the artist, most often expressing himself through music ragging between several different cybertronian music genres.

just the lil guys

#soundwave #rumble #frenzy #ravage #ratbat #lazerbeak #transformers fan continuity #transformers #art post #redesign #transformers synergize #tfs #they have cassetes have character bulet points but i didn't feel like turning it into decpecription #maybe later #mini cons and mini bots are 2 diffrent things mincons are more like vary smart animals while mini bots are just vary short dudes #Cassettes carriers like all cybertronians cannot create sparks but are able to take other bots as sorta symbiotes #Cassettes carriers have the ability to stabilize unstable spark #so often but not always cassette are bot with unstable sparks that would not live long on their own #Cassette carriers also have the ability to heal and even edit sparks slightly but don't worry about that :) #Mini bot twins are the most common type of mini bot cassette #If a spark slits into twins and there's no enough spark material the two new sparks will be unstable #Without a cassette carrier bots like these only live a few months at most #rumble is like 5.10ft 177cm #frenzy is like 6.4ft or 194 #they art just human sized #rumble and frenzy are not the biggest threat to other bots but they are scary as shit to humans #they can fit were most humans fit #you cannot hide from them #maccadam

[aeriondripflame]

deeply troubled by the lack of frankenstein themes with maegor and visenya. you don’t know them like i do.

#she created him as all mothers do but she cannot make him another #thinking of his lack of ability to have children and asking his mother (the god to his adam!) to make him one like she made him. #guys guys pls #guava.txt #maegor targaryen #you know the eve being carved from adam’s rib. yea that with maegor and visenya. #he’s her boy! he’s her clone! he cannot define himself without relation towards her. guys guys pls maegor brainrot has me