#sick-stick

[golyadkin]

I cannot express enough that if your reaction, as a hobby artist, to not getting that many notes on your art is to say "maybe I should just stop doing art altogether" you need to stop posting art to tumblr

not necessarily forever, not even for long, but just stop putting your art on here and start doing it for you again, remember why you enjoyed doing art in the first place and stop relying on the attention of faceless people on the internet for your enjoyment of your hard work

believe me, I get it, nothing crushes the artistic soul quite like labouring for hours on a piece only for it to get like 10 notes, so you need to find your own source of joy in the act of creation and a lot of the time that means making art and not showing it to anybody

#not art #listen #for real #this is not about any one person because i've seen posts about it from a bunch of people #you think i post everything here? buddy i dont even post half my stuff here #every drawing you see is preceded by five more just like it #that never see my cursor close to the save button #i have a sketchbook i draw in regularly that i do'nt show to a single goddam person #i make cutout art from gels i steal from work and stick them to my windows and do paintings in my living room just for me #because that it the only way you are ever going to be able to retain your original love of art #is by doing it for the sake of doing it #not for the sake of seeing how many people stop and stare #anyways i'm sorry if this sounds terse #but i'm so sick of seeing artists put all their self-esteem and happiness in the hands of a blogging website #stop selling yourself short by measuring your self worth by how many reblogs you get and what people say in the tags #your artistry and your happiness are worth more than that #if you're an artist for a living that's another story #but even then #even then #anyways sorry i'm done ranting

[deerspherestudios]

I'm way late but better late than never 😭! For this March event by lazerinth ❤️

#mushroom oasis vn #doodles #mushroom oasis march #been sick for 3 days straight it was so awful ghghn #but im happy i get to start these now #sticking to a simple artstyle so i can keep up #im gonna post these as i go #ALSO IMAGINE MY SURPRISE TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE PARTICIPATE TOO BTW??? #YALL GONNA MAKE ME CRY OWEUGHEH #love seeing the entries theyre all amazing <3

[gamblegun]

The thing is, when I entered some queer spaces irl, when I wasn't even approaching passing yet, people made fun of trans men's genitals to my face under the guise of "punching up". I was expected to "bare the responsibility of choosing the patriarchy," when keep in mind, I hadn't even cut my hair or bought new clothes yet. I was constantly lectured about the basics of my own transition and treated like a child by people much younger than me. I'd been told I was going to become a completely different person on testosterone, an angry monster, because they knew someone, "it happened to before." People were uncomfortable using he/him pronouns for me and used they/them instead. I was told I would be better as a lesbian, and some wlw tried to persistently sleep with me, telling me they saw me as a woman the whole time.

None of this is good faith feminism, it's not "women venting", it just can't be. It simply can't be.

#transandrophobia #anti transmasculinity #I'm sure gay male spaces are going to come with thier own transphobia and challenges but I think I'm ready to stick to those for a while #I'm just sick of it #and years ago online I remember anti-transmasc sentiment being everywhere but I thought people grew from that? #apparently not

[foursidecity]

Typically you have to wait for inspiration to strike but it seems snufkin has... other methods

#cracking up every time i run into a bush to get inspiration. brb gotta get #bugs n sticks in my hair before i can play some sick tunes #melody of moominvalley #moomin #moomins #snufkin #art #fanart #ispy.png #snufkin art #moomin art #moomin fanart #hes done thisnlike 20 times its fine

[green-crocs12]

as promised more sasunaru 🫡 (naruto’s playing hard to get for once)

bonus scene:

also this was inspired by @/pogo_sticks1221 on tiktok so credit to them!! (i’m still un original)

#dw naruto n sasuke have secret ramen dinners every week #sasuke got sick of spending his time with evil war criminals or wtv tf #sasuke #naruto #naruto x sasuke #sasuke uchiha #naruto uzumaki #naruto uzumaki x sasuke uchiha #naruto comics #crocs art #sns #sns art #mini comics #naruto doodles #sasunaru #narusasu #they whipped for each other fr #sasunaru memes #i really need to come up with some original content #but go check out pogo sticks tt acc PLEASE #they make art too #go look plus their naruto twitter videos are so funny #naruto shippuden #naruto shitposting

[lotus-pear]

doing a social experiment where i am introducing my friend to bungou stray dogs solely through knkdz content/official art and portraying kunikida and dazai as the "main" implied relationship in bsd. no skk, she does not know chuuya, i have not mentioned chuuya, and she will not meet chuuya until episode nine. this is solely for the purpose of seeing whether or not new bsd fans' pyscholgies are skewed bc of skk or whether they start the show solely for them. after she meets chuuya i'll ask her which pairing she prefers more

#LISTEN DONT YOU THINK IT WOULD BE INTERESTING IF THE ROLES WERE REVERSED FOR ONCE #SKK AS THE RAREPAIR??? KNKDZ AS THE MAIN PAIRING?? #this is so evil and delicious of me i am rubbing my sick twisted little hands together and grinning maliciously #what happens when a pairing is forced down someone's throat since the start of the exposure to the media they are indulging #will they stick by the pairing bc they associate it w the introduction of the show? or will they move on to another pairing? #only time will tell #bsd #skk #knkdz

[robinfollies]

KEEP THE DANGER OUT // KEEP THE DANGER IN

#billie bust up #bbu billie #bbu fantoccio #robin’s art #2024 art #COMPANION PIECES BABY!!! started these last year (month) and finally finished em!!! :33 #i could write an ENTIRE essay abt billie and fanto and their parallels and stuff #which actually i love tumblr tags. lets do some of that here! #okAY IM NOT GONNA GO INTO EVERYTHING BUT HERES A BASIC RUNDOWN OF SOME OF MY THOUGHTS #let’s start by looking at goatshire + the lost city of magic !! #both places have some kind of border around them keeping SOMETHING in/out #goatshire’s wall keeping the trolls/other danger out; keeping the villagers inside safe #and the city’s barrier keeping the curse inside; while keeping everyone outside safe from it #but in turn it’s also keeping billie and fanto trapped in their respective places #one moreso than the other i guess but ahahaha. haha. heh. OKAY MOVING FORTH #unrelated but how sick would it be if the barrier broke and let the curse out. just sayiiin.. a lil theory thats been on my mind recently #anyways back to THE POINT #okay this parts gonna sound insane BUT JUST HEAR ME OUT HERE #goatshire citizens / the cursed city citizens. #billie and fanto both kinda stick out in their respecitve homes; fanto being the only uncursed guy and billie with their magic #so theres like. a real disconnect between them and others there. u get what i mean. #theyre both outliers and like something something allegory for neurodivergence and struggling to connect with others probably #SORRY GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. idk how to explain it BUT DO U GET IT!!! DO U UNDERSTAND!!!! #also they were both abandoned by SOMEone stares at arthur #okay specifically whoever fanto’s cretaor was left him behind but u know me im such a fanto elmtwig jak #something something loneliness and being left behind and having ppl around you who kinds understand u but also not totally. kicks rock #someone get these siblings some THERAPY!!!!!!! #this was a very disjointed explanation bUT HOPEFULLY I GOT MOST OF MY THOUGHTS ACROSS GOOD. IM BAD AT EXPLAINING THINGS SORRY #someone order me a yappuccino!!!!! BYE!!!!

[strangesickness]

richie tozier is surprisingly good with a needle and thread because he's always having to repair his clothes...

when he's little theres like perpetual holes in the knees of his pants because he keeps tripping because he's running too fast or doing a stupid little dance or something

maggie can't keep up with how fast he rips his pants so she teaches him to fix them.

at first he's disinterested, but she makes fun patches for him to use instead of just using regular square/oval ones, at which point she then has to teach him how to make his own and he gets pretty into it

maggie left out an embroidery magazine one time and he got bored and read through it and now if he's left alone with a needle and colorful thread and he's bored whatever fabric he can get his hands on, weather thats clothes, his bag, or something else, will have tiny little stars and flowers embroidered into it. it's like drawing on himself at this point, he just does it without thinking to keep himself occupied

he carries a miniature sewing kit in his bag in case anything happens to his clothes (or in case he gets bored... mainly that...) and it has cute little scissors he can hardly use because they're way too small for his hands, and a bunch of buttons he keeps attaching and detaching from stuff (all his clothes have tiny little needle holes it is kind of terrible LOL

he doesn't usually do any actual embroidery projects but sometimes he will go Insane Hyper Focus Mode and embroider an entire napkin or something in one sitting and he looks up and he's like... wtf when did the sun set...???

#richie tozier posting again... who could have guessed... #posts afflicted with a strange sickness #it stephen king #richie tozier #it 2019 #it 2017 #yall it is so fun to stick a needle in and out of fabric without purpose #like sometimes you just need to put random zigzags into something for no reason

[calmparticles]

w➡️e➡️l➡️l➡️n➡️e➡️s➡️s

@@@@@@@@@@[Get bETTER S00N!!]

#they'll stick to their life of sick crime thank you very much!/ #plus despite being cured the other viros are still Not Doctors. like buddies stop that. you're gonna get sued for malpractice/ #deltarune #virovirokun #myart #eyestrain/ #i got so many good recs to catch up on! thank you everyone who sent one in during my break!!!! ILY/ #i wanna draw some ambyus tomorrow... it's been Too Long i gotta relearn how to drawn em DFKBDFK/

[skyberia]

instead of air, you exhale thoughts. there are no trees that eat thoughts.

#disco elysium #harry du bois #artists on tumblr #drawings #i don't think i'm quite 100% happy with this but i needed to get it out of my mind. it was sticking to my brain and making me sick

[vesrimm]

What colors would a god machine bleed? Be it some dream or nightmare?

#blood/ #rain world #five pebbles #rain world five pebbles #five pebbles rain world #biting and chewing my favorite character like a chewtoy and then sticking him in a blender (affectionate) #he's so me. i need to shake him around for a while. give me 26 dollars for the plush and i'll give him a warm blankie instead. #i also just wanted to draw someone covered in blood. unfortunately he was the person i was sketching. i'm so so sick he's suffering with me #payment for the sniffles. #idk what the text is for i just wanted to sound cool </3 #haha wheee 💖 #edit: wow i should drench him in blood more often. yall like that huh.

[mpekamitzii]

ANGIEEE

#my fav. farm rat #she found a magical staff buried in a graveyard and when the spirit asked back for it she went get your own magic stick old man!! #finders keepers #her lightning aura is connected to the light spirit pictured below and friday the crow helps her regulate the magic #because humans arent really good magic conductors #death strands #will draw more about that im really sick rn #art #draw #drawing #mitzdraws #original character #magic #crow

[rakkuntoast]

holding onto hardcore season 4 like my life depends on it cuz i love the lore, i love his world i love how passionate he is about it and i hate how sometimes little love it gets from the latter half of the people that only stick to qsmp streams

cuz its the little details and dedication he puts to each build that makes it so special to me, the history and storytelling behind each build while still giving it a purpose and function and how much genuine love he has for it, even when we give him shit about him downplaying his own abilities he's proud of what he's built

like hell the fact that he is going to revisit old locations to add more to them its just so ausefh i love passion projects, i love being passionate about things people are passionate about

#txt post #i am just yapping about things that i love cuz yk? fuck everything i love what im passionate about and im not going to shut up about it #philza s4 #hcs4 needs more love. seeing phil just pull the “sorry q smp stream is later but you can stick around if you want for hardcore” cuz like #I AM HERE FOR HARDCORE. THIS IS WHAT I LOVE THIS IS WHAT MAKES ME COME BACK #i am glad that hcs4 canon cuz his hc world is sick as fuck and people should bully him more into bulding more cool stuff #like people dont even talk how he's a damn pioneer on builds and its so wild to me cuz yk where those came from? goddamn him spending #100 hours in his hardcore world for the fun of it #philza

[houseswife]

house’s cane is grotesquely underutilised sexual style in fanfics considering that 1) it’s a long phallic object that he is constantly handling and 2) he straight up joked about fucking wilson with it that one time

#I mean that’s not even my thing personally but like cmon #sick of fanfics where house’s disability is magically healed/not mentioned/ignored to an unrealistic extent #it’s not about what you can do for the infarction so much as what it can do for YOU #it makes me wonder if we all watched the same show #I watched house slam a man against the wall and hold him there by the cane to his throat and I was never the same #house md #hilson #house/wilson #gregory house #james wilson #greg house #hatecrimes md #hornyposting #oh also don’t forget the time wilson grabbed it in that deleted scene as a power move. insanity #I was at the national portrait gallery today and I saw a painting of a king w/ his sceptor and I had a Realization #idc if it’s cringe... a big stick is simply an evolved packer. that shit is HOT

[leciraofthewilderness]

So, despite some faults, I really enjoyed totk, and on its anniversary I want to say something about it. Other people have said similar things before but it’s really important to me and actually a big part of why the story of totk was meaningful to me, so I want to also say it:

Zelda needed to come back from draconification. The story needed that. It wasn’t lazy and just ignoring “consequences” because (imo) that was the *point*

The point is to feel like there are going to be terrible consequences and then say actually, no. You can come back from this, with the help of other people.

To me at least, that was the theme of the whole story.

If botw was about how the world goes on past loss and grief and starts to heal (how flowers grow in the ruins and the world can be beautiful again, be worth saving, even if it has changed)…then totk was about a more personal kind of healing.

The weight of the world should not be on your shoulders alone…you, alone, should not have to fix everything…you should not have to sacrifice yourself, but when you do, someone will be there to save you from it.

This turned into a really long ramble so:

You (Link) gained so much and now it’s gone. It feels like you’re back to where you started and yet you know you have to do it all again…you were weak and you failed and you’re weaker now…but

You go down to the surface. Monsters swarm across it once again. Other people are fighting them too though. You help, but it’s not just you…

You go to the Rito, the Gorons, the Zora, the Gerudo…just like with the divine beasts, there are friends who help you save each region. But this time, part of them comes along with you when you leave. It’s nice, you realize, the first time one of them protects you from a monster you weren’t prepared for. You’re still weaker than you were before, but someone has your back…

When you go up to the sky you see a strange new dragon there. There’s something about them that feels familiar. You try not to think about it.

You go down to the depths too. It’s terrifying at first. You hate it. You only want to get what you came for and get out of the dark….but slowly, the light grows. You get stronger. The dark feels like a challenge you can face (and someone has your back).

There are spirits down there. You don’t know when they’re from, but some part of you wonders…are these all the people you let die in the Calamity? (You help them find rest from their wandering. The weight on your shoulders feels a little less heavy).

There’s so much gloom. The first few times the sky turns red and hands chase you (a reminder of what you’ve lost, how you failed) you just run. Eventually though, you have to fight. It feels like the (second) worst day of your life again. But you manage to get free of the grasping gloom and stand and fight, as wild and desperate as it is. Beneath the manifestation of your worst fears, there’s another thing to fight, but this time it has a face (a voice in the back of your head says…you know this isn’t all on you and your failure…it’s really Ganon’s fault right?). You get through it.

At every turn in your travels, it seems like something reminds you of Zelda. Her passion, her curiosity, her kindness. You miss her.

At first, the tears you find reassure you. She may be in the past, but she’s safe. She’ll come back somehow…but then you hear the word draconification for the first time. You want to believe she wouldn’t do it but you know her and the fear sits cold inside you. (Zelda is a lot of things. She’s been allowed to be more of them, since she was freed from her hundred year battle, without her father holding her back. But deep down inside her, there’s a vein of self-sacrifice that still runs strong. It’s what saved the world before, after all).

She did it. She really did it. She’s gone from you (from Hyrule) forever, and it’s all your fault. If only you hadn’t failed so utterly in the battle (you can hardly even call it that) under the castle. If only you’d caught her. If only you hadn’t let the sword break. You should have protected her you should have been better it’s all your fault and now she has to live with the consequences, forever. Everything really is on you, you should have been better.

(Zelda POV: you couldn’t call upon Hylia’s power in time, you were too content to let it wither and fade away from you, ready to be free of it. You shouldn’t have. He got hurt, the sword got hurt, it’s your fault…Sonia and Rauru help you channel it again, Sonia helps you learn how to turn back time…but you don’t save her. She dies because you couldn’t save her. Rauru dies not long after. There is no one left to guide you, once again. You could spend years trying to figure it out on your own. But you did that last time. It didn’t work. Self-sacrifice, stepping in front of someone you love, that worked. (You do what you can, to call upon the sages, to help Link in the future, first). And then you swallow the stone. You’ve come a long way, in the past five years, allowing yourself to exist. But in the end, self-sacrifice worked last time. It’ll work this time too.)

You (Link) go down beneath the castle. You were supposed to bring the sages but you didn’t. It’s nice, for someone to have your back. But no one else should get hurt to fix your mistakes.

They follow you anyway. They fight with you, against the hordes, against the greatest enemies you defeated together, along the way. They’ll have your back, even if you don’t think you deserve it.

You fight Ganondorf, and then the demon king, in the hardest battle of your life. You think it’s over and then the demon king decides it’s better to lose himself completely than let you win. You’re exhausted and afraid of yet another battle, but up there in the sky, when you’re falling, the Light Dragon catches you (you wonder why she changed her path to catch you, you wonder if there’s still something of Zelda left in there to save). With her help, you win.

And then you’re in some other realm. The spirits of Sonia and Rauru are there. You remember how the two of them and Zelda channeled such incredible power together. You think about Recall. Turning something back to the memory of what it was before, like Sonia said. You stand with them and you allow yourself to hope. Maybe the Light Dragon can remember the form she took so long ago, the person that she was.

And then you’re falling, and Zelda is falling, but this time you catch her. You catch her. She’s back home with you, finally, finally.

And maybe, one mistake doesn’t have to be the end of the world. You don’t have to be perfect. Sometimes, someone else can stand with you, and it’ll all turn out alright. (You can put the weight of the world on your shoulders, you can sacrifice yourself, but someone will be there to catch you, someone will be there to pull you back to yourself, when all is said and done).

#loz #tears of the kingdom #Link #Zelda #I will say also that I think part of the reason totk is special to me is very personal #like when it came out I was still struggling with the worst burnout of my life #I had had a few months of exhaustion between January and March and in May that exhaustion was still sticking to me #it was hard to get out of bed hard to do anything I felt so tired that I almost felt sick but I wasn’t sick #and the thing is Zelda games are my biggest special interest #and having a new one to play like genuinely I’m not joking it gave me bsck so much energy #I was doing really badly but when totk came out I played it for an entire weekend straight basically #and like my mom came to visit me and help me out with basic life stuff #and like sit with me while I played just like enjoying being together #and that was really nice #over that summer and the fall after I started getting to know someone I work with better #largely over conversations about totk at first #and they’ve become a good friend #(and become someone that I feel safe to be fully myself around) #and so I just have this really strong personal connection to totk #like I will not claim to be impartial about it #there are definitely criticisms that I can acknowledge #in particular I don’t like that they un-amputeed Link let Link be disabled #and also ganondorf’s characterization was shallow and one dimensional #and I’m sure there’s other things I could think of #but the overall narrative #including Zelda becoming the light dragon and then turning back in the end #I really like that #it felt like a narrative of healing to me #and playing it at the time that I did felt really healing to me too

[bananonbinary]

somewhat kicking a bees nest here, but hear me out-

"homemade and handcrafted goods should cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars" is why attaching a monetary value to esoteric concepts like "time" and "skill" (and, you know, "a human being") is a bad system.

now, before the pitchforks come out, i am not bitching because i want a handcrafted quilt for $20. i do recognize that it would be unbelievably unfair to the quilter. but like...doesn't that sound obscene? that we live in a system where things that used to be pretty mundane are now only available to the upper class, or the creator just fucking dies? where in order for someone to make anything artistic, they need to be independently wealthy or ONLY cater to wealthy people?

again, i am not suggesting that artists should sell me their shit at a horrific loss. im not really suggesting any solution at all here, we're between a bit of a rock and a hard place. but it feels really inherently fucked up to me that the only options are "Artists taken advantage of" and "only rich people get art."

anyways, UBI huh

#like i see these arguments about rising videogame and movie and tv costs as well #and like. yes! i do think those artists deserve a living wage! #but also its grotesque that that means only rich people have access to art #a ubi wouldnt solve EVERYTHING but it sure would make literally everything easier you know? #i hate the idea of art as career #not because i dont think its important #but because i feel like its TOO important to attach to that fucking carrot/stick you know? #whoever controls the money can control the art and that's real stupid. even if it IS how its always been. #but taking it further than that. i guess i hate 'career' meaning 'reason you get to live' in the FIRST place #so i dont hate artists that make it their career. that's fine. #but i think a society that forces you to attach a dollar value to everything you care about in order to live is very sick