#will add source in a bit

[necropsittacus]

california court just ruled that bumblebees can be legally considered fish

#txt #no this is not a joke post #will add source in a bit #for context it's because the california endangered species laws don't specifically include invertebrates #and some agricultural groups tried to push back on bees being considered for protection because of that #but there's precedent for 'fish' being defined extremely loosely to include invertebrates (a snail) in this context

[atthebell-moved]

hi, i completely agree that the fandom has a problem with misogyny and often fails at self-introspection. my question is, do you have any resources/tips/thoughts on how to be better about it? even, how to recognize it in yourself the first place? "ok i'll stop being a misogynist now" is a lot easier said than done, especially for people who might not be that educated on the subject, and majority of the people in this fandom are quite young as well.

this is long as fuck and possibly somewhat incoherent bc it took so long to write but i did my best

my biggest tip for people who don't know much about misogyny is to look at your own behavior and learn how to clock what you're doing as sexist.

are you criticizing a female creator? think about why you're doing it, what the actual beef you have with them is. if it seems to be just a sense of discomfort or thinking they're annoying or overly loud or pushy, think about male ccs who act the same way and why you dont consider them annoying. are you annoyed with them for being on a male cc's stream? why? does it feel like theyre taking up too much attention? do you get annoyed with them for talking too much or flirting with guys? for gaming especially-- do you get annoyed with them for not knowing something or being "bad" at a game? think about why that is and why its just funny when a male cc is bad at games or doesnt know something.

a HUGE problem i see in this fandom is the Madonna-whore complex, repackaged as the little sister-racist dichotomy (kudos to @yourlittlemenace for that phrasing).

if a female cc is deemed to be "playing nice" (doesnt talk too much, is "nice", streams with male ccs but doesnt flirt with them, isn't "overtly sexual"), she's the little sister of the group. all the male ccs "protect" her, she literally folds their laundry, she doesnt call out how people treat her, and the fandom pretends that this is a normal and cool way to treat women who are public figures. this also goes for mom/big sister/etc. if you think you haven't done this, think about all the aus where you've forced puffy into some kind of maternal or sisterly role when it made no sense. then think about how pissed people got when she decided not to be the server therapist and was "mean" to Tommy (in lore, with permission. that she didnt even need to get. see that clip i rbed earlier from her podcast.)

if the fandom decides she doesnt play nice, if she flirts with male ccs too much or stands up for herself or points out how unfair it is that she's being treated this way, she gets demeaned, harassed, and shunned by the fandom. consider, again, puffy. consider how niki flirted with wilbur and talked about misogyny and got called a racist for *checks notes* "speaking to schlatt and fundy" and "not being a native english speaker". she got called a slut and a queerbaiter for kissing another woman despite being bisexual.

consider how hard people went down on hannah for having said the r slur several years back versus how hard they went on dream for the same thing. and how people dug it up as a direct response to her being on stream with dream. consider how every time hannah talks about how unfair it is that the mcc subreddit treats her like trash, she has to delete all her tweets bc they harass her to hell and back and act like she's an asshole for pointing out their hypocrisy.

the fandom doesnt do this across the board; i shouldnt have to say this, but its not an everyone versus no one issue. some people do this outright and loud, some dont seem to realize theyre doing it, and a few people dont do it at all (incredibly rare, i can count on one hand the number of people who genuinely seem to try to avoid these issues, which is why im complaining).

in terms of lore, have you ever once done analysis on a female character? why do you think you haven't? the bechdel-wallace test is an (imperfect) way of gauging how a piece of media ignores women and prioritizes men. think about the fact that there are FOUR female ccs on the DSMP and they are continually ignored in favor of male characters. consider that puffy and aimsey both talked about trying to do genuine lore and getting shafted, either because no one was online and wouldn't put in the effort to stream with them or because they received insane amounts of criticism for breaking anything on the server, despite the clear lack of "no griefing" rules and the precedent that you can blow other people's shit up (tommy leveling one of puffy's builds, amongst many other examples).

a quick thing about ships: have you ever wondered why m/m ships are so popular? the general consensus amongst people who care about feminism and are into fandom studies is that for a long period of time, m/m was hugely popular because women are so rarely written as full and complete characters in any media. so people took to engaging with m/m ships and writing about them because they were the most fulfilling relationships, and because misogyny led them to be predisposed to be uninterested in female characters.

say an m/m ship is incredibly popular, something like, i dunno, john watson and sherlock holmes from bbc sherlock. lets also say the canonical media presents one or both of the characters with a female love interest. how do you think a fandom that prioritizes m/m ships and is primed to be disinterested in women as characters (either because of our society's role in teaching people that women do not matter or because of fandom's history in assuming female characters are not fleshed out) is going to react? if you said theyre going to send undue amounts of criticism her way and act like its an act of homophobia to give a canonically straight character a female love interest, congrats, you've figured out a huge component in fandom misogyny. take this, amplify it over several decades, and add the psychic damage that supernatural gave society. queerbaiting is bad but mistreating female characters in service of nonexistent queer relationships is also bad.

this is relevant in general but i also believe its relevant for the dsmp because of the complete lack of m/f ships. aside from phil and kristin, who are literally married irl and kristin isn't even on the server, there are no m/f ships that involve female creators. this is not, despite what you may think, due to the inherently yaoi nature of minecraft roleplay. this is because the creators, including the male ones, are afraid of the blowback of m/f flirting and how fucking awful people are to female ccs anytime it happens. once again look at niki. as another example, consider how notfounders harassed the living daylights out of mxmtoon for flirting with gnf on twitter. if i was a cc i would avoid it like the plague too considering how happy people are to dig shit up about them or accuse them of being a slut or an attention whore/"pick me girl" for speaking to a man.

one last thing, this is more about fanart than anything else but stop drawing women to look like teenage boys. the amount of fanart i see where i literally cannot tell if someone has drawn niki or tommy is fucking insane. niki has curves. draw her with them. if you cannot draw women or people outside a very specific body type you cannot draw. fatphobia and misogyny have a clear overlap.

i cant think of anything else and ive already spent forever on this. look into feminist media analysis. think twice about how you react to female ccs & female characters. consider not just what characters have interesting stories but who is allowed to have interesting stories. you might be neglecting someone who has a lot going on because you're dismissing a female character as inherently less likely to be interesting. you might not even know someone has an interesting story because the fandom neglects it so completely.

as a final little note: like i said earlier, if you're not familiar with gender & sexuality studies, you may not know this, but homophobia and transphobia are rooted in misogyny. the idea that gender is immutable and rigid is because of the patriarchy. this is why gendered slurs are used against queer people and why queer men in particular get accused of and demeaned for being feminine. your understanding of queerphobia is incomplete without considering how sexism plays a role.

also go read everything rayne fisher-quann has ever written but especially this piece on getting woman'd and listen to you're wrong about

#asks #anons #misogyny in fandom #i cant think of a ton of specific links to provide because my understanding of feminism is like. so entrenched #like ive been doing it basically since i got on the internet #and i also studied it in university so i dont want to send like. meaty academic texts necessarily #ill look and see if i can find any other helpful sources though and feel free to add on #also i want to note on that last bit that every time ive talked about this ive mentioned that this fandom runs quite young #and i acknowledge that i literally studied this for like six years #so i have a leg up. but it does feel genuinely like people are putting on blinders to avoid talking about it #which is why it feels like its bc feminism is cringe right now or something #this is. not well written but im honestly so sleepy i stayed up til 3 working on orders ahhhhh #banger posts

[vaxxman]

@ The people who make colouring books where you just colour parts of the human body to study the anatomy: I want to kiss you on your mouth.

#60 seconds till mission begins rambles #I've been so deprived of drawing Medic lately I feel so bleak #I'm not a big fan of colouring but a class I'm taking this year has The human brain colouring book listed in the class literature #Immediately went to loan it at the library and scan all 300 pages; I'm going to send it around in class like a dealer #All is fair in Software Piracy and Academia; yall should have made it free and open source in the first place #For legal reasons I will add here that it makes no difference if my teacher who owns a copy made copies and distributed them in class #The neuro branch isn't even my field of specialisation but I never say no to a bit of medical knowledge #Me @ my Prof who collaborates with people doing work on Parkinsons and Alzheimer pspspsps tell me more; let me in

[autumngracy]

Not me creeping up to the wordcount of the fourth longest book ever written

#A Reflection of Starlight #AROS #valvert #fanfic #writing #Hey I switched back to LibreOffice again after setting up my new computer #(RIP my old computer's installation of MS Office 2009) #And also my old computer in general as it is now giving me the blue screen of death upon boot #but ANYWAY #does anybody know how to make LibreOffice stop highlighting formatted areas? BC with Dark Mode it's highlighting white text #which makes it impossible to read my footnote and page numbers #Also I CANNOT believe this program was coded to be so that 'Ignore' and 'Ignore All' options only do so for the CURRENT SESSION ONLY #Like what in god's name??? #I spent 3-4 hours reformatting AROS after converting it only to learn that all the 'errors' I told it to ignore just popped back #the second I reopened the document like jesus christ #Why even offer those options if it doesn't do it permanently for that document file #HHHHHHHhhhhhhHHHHHH #I then spent another several hours being forced to change the language formatting to French for all the French bits #JUST so it would stop underlining all of them in red #And there's no way for me to get rid of the underlining on things like cut off bits of dialogue #bc they are NOT proper words and I refuse to add them to my Dictionary (thus polluting it) just to get rid of them #Ugh #So anyway remember years ago how I joked about what if I accidentally wrote a fanfic longer than the source material itself #That being one of the longest books ever written (technically THE longest book ever written #if we're counting the FRENCH version of it and not the English translation #And yeah I know I technically split AROS into 3 books but that was only for reader convenience #It's still one book in my heart #And also because I think it would be REALLY funny to surpass Hugo's wordcount #Which is entirely plausible bc in English it was only about 531k so I only a little over 100k off and I think I can easily make that #with the material I have left to write but is already mostly plotted out

[system-architect]

i took some of my friends/guildies on a run through 'story mode' (listening to all the dialogue) of shattered observatory recently and some of them learned new stuff despite running fractals often, which made me realize a bit there's actually a decent amount of fractals lore that people might not know or have picked up on, especially if you ran through the fractals pretty fast?? imo it's genuinely one of the most fascinating and well-written areas of the game

so, here, some of my favorite fractal/dessa/arkk lore tidbits (and why i Really Love Fractals):

1. arkk and potentially dessa are implied to be ex-inquest-- in the nightmare fractals, arkk mistakes the players for inquest debt collectors, and in his chaos fractal journal entries mentions his 'witless subordinates', so the implication feels to be that his mists research was inquest funded before he ghosted them. in thaumanova, dessa mentions two of the inquest npcs as having been krewemates of hers-- in ls1 she refers to them as being from her 'old krewe', and still describes them as friends (she also refers to them as 'good technicians', like yknow, the inquest rank). also, it may be for aesthetics, but tiles with the inquest logo are used throughout fractals (and in mistlock sanctuary)

2. simon, the cat obtainable from fractals, is implied to have been arkk's cat as per the headstone next to it (does this make arkk's cat golems make sense? maybe! they're also a cheeky reference to the other cat golems throughout fractals)

3. there was a little incident back in ls1 that revealed the fractals lobby is, itself, a fractal, and it and all the creatures in it loop continuously just like the regular fractals. shattered observatory is also vaguely foreshadowed in it, in a sad way :")

3a. similarly, by the way, the mistlock sanctuary is a fractal too-- ever talked to the npcs in there? go speak to ilia-- and the bartender

4. dessa hates the consortium, supposedly 'lost' her boyfriend (potentially arkk's father?) to them, and is not aware that the consortium are the ones who started promoting the fractals to tyria as an 'attraction'

5. dessa is, in some way, connected to the asura boss at the end of uncategorized fractal-- a small fact we only know from the dreamer collection, combined with dessa freaking out and having to leave when the fractal begins. we don't know their relation

6. dessa seems somewhat aware that she is non-existent/a mists magic construct bound to the timeloops. in a now-lost lore interview from wartower, she is described as being afraid to leave mistlock observatory in case she can't return to it. at the end of shattered observatory, she is much quicker to have the revelation than arkk is-- to the point where you could read it as her having known the whole time

7. and now, my favorite, which is more of a headcanon with a solid lore basis that i tend to go full pepe silvia about-- there's two types of fractal we see: ones that are sort of 'possible' or somewhat alien alternate realities, and then ones that are repeating loops of events that actually happened.

chaos, nightmare, and shattered observatory are all evidently loops of events that actually happened. arkk very much does smash into the fractals, you very much do stop him, dessa and arkk very much do effectively sacrifice themselves to stop the fractals from becoming destroyed, and then the loop repeats-- as they explicitly state it will

here's the thing... during the dialogue at the end of shattered, dessa states that arkk did successfully account for all variables except for the reality that they themselves aren't sentient and are just echoes bound to the fractal loop. thus that arkk's DDR would have successfully worked to extract them from the fractals if they were real, corporeal entities.

but since the shattered observatory is an echo of an event that happened, then just like all the other 'echo' fractals, then there needed to have been actual people acting upon the mists to create the event that's echoed in the first place. that is, it didn't just pop into existence of its' own accord. and while we encounter the fractal looped versions of arkk and dessa, they definitely were real people outside in tyria at some point in time

so... in the original version of the fractal... what actually happened? did a real, corporeal arkk meet a real, corporeal dessa? if so, did his DDR work? did they actually escape the mists, and then the loop in the fractal only ended up like it did because the copies couldn't follow in the originals' footsteps? or was arkk real, only to find that dessa wasn't? if the arkk and dessa we meet are only impressions or echoes of the real things, then where on tyria are the real arkk and dessa?

we don't know!! we simply don't know! we also know very little about the consortium, their connections to the inquest, or the uncategorized fractal! there is SO MUCH lore they could expand upon in future fractals and i really really hope they do ;_;

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #gw2 lore #obvs theres fractal spoilers in here #truly wish it was easier to source a lot of this stuff but half the time the wiki doesnt have it or the link is dead #so sorry to do a bit of a source: trust me on some of this #btw reasonable logical jump-- #the reason revenant legends are what they are is your legends are basically Fractal Loop versions of themselves #theyre an impression of a specific moment in time of that hero #instead of the mistlock observatory stabilizing them its the revenant doing it #thx #my stuff #feel free to add your own fave fractals things btw

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Hermaeus Mora: You can tell me all your secrets.

Hermaeus Mora: I mean, you absolutely shouldn’t.

Hermaeus Mora: I’ll use them against you . . . but technically, you can.

Mephala: *stabs her brother in the tentacle*

Mephala: Shut up! Secrets are MY thing! Poser.

#please i had to reuse this for mora and add phali's bit it was too perfect #hermaeus mora #apocrypha #mephala #spiral skein #daedric princes #nerevar queue and star #incorrect quotes #incorrect elder scrolls #incorrect skyrim quotes #tes #the elder scrolls #skyrim #the elder scrolls v: skyrim #source: welcome to night vale

[sierice]

just realized that i can post my outfit inspos for apollo on this blog. im going to abuse this a normal amount i promise. wait whats that- [hits you with 5 blocks of images]

#i love how you can slap any outfit on apollo and call it an apollo outfit its sooooo fun #yall should try it sometime its cathartic #btw there is like. a bare minimum of thought put behind this i just use whatever photos i like and that give me apollo vibes #i feel like this is the bit where someone should say 'he would NOT wear that' #last two are my favorites bc those are the most apollo ones out of all of these ^-^ #also i feel like i should include like a tw for partial nudity or smth? lmk #trials of apollo #toa #pjo apollo #lester papadopoulos #lester could pull all of these as well. i know this in my heart #apollogists #OH also lmk if you wanna know like the source for these outfits #i wanted to mention them but i dont want to put them in the alt text or anything thats just rude #but i also dont want to write it in the normal text cause that would make this insanely long so #(wait. i could add that white text thing they put on the bottom of some pictures) #(but how do i put that????) #mine

[quicksilversquared]

I made the mistake of going 'oh I'll edit my thesis proposal over Thanksgiving break! I had a buttton of detail in the outline already, all I need to do is shuffle the section that some stuff is in and then restructure a couple sentences!'

....anyway I have only straightened one page out of nine out so far. I am suffering. I have not even gotten halfway through this section, but at least it's the longest section of the bunch and all of the others are like a third of the length.

(it's due next Friday whoops)

#s u f f e r i n g #specific aims at least has been both transition sentence-ified and wrestled back to one page #bibliography.....exists #(I need to add a new source to it) #I do need to double-check that 10 pages is the minimum and not the goal number because I still need to double-space the proposal bit

[alangdorf]

Had Traitor Magolor almost done except for the legs too, lol. My brush settings were way better on this one; I just did the coloring process kinda backwards and was really stubborn about not pulling it into csp to make the EX recolor better, but I still like the results ok. And I’m including a rainbow version of the background I made but didn’t end up committing to both to shorten the post and because I think it’s funny. Bisexual Flag Guy in the Gay Dimension

#art #digital #kirby #magolor #kirby gijinka #tumblr is letting me add alt text on desktop this time phew #so yeah I added in my light sources and background at the end as usual but on this one you can really tell they had no effect on the shading #usually I don't do strong in-frame light sources and like. environments #I could've messed with it more and redone a bunch of the shading but I'm just ready to be done with it #the skirt looks a little too short here but I'm just not great at drawing it riding up realistically #too much 3d thinking #I just wanted to show off the legs #though the magic circle covers up the upper one a bit lol #This is the end of my backlog but not the end of the Magolor gijinka drawings. Apologies or congratulations #I'm really mentally ill about him right now and it's like a Problem #wait is it only letting me do captions on desktop?? is there a difference? I thought alt text would let me do way more characters #whatever #I usually post from drawings directly from my laptop so I don't have to deal with discord compression but this is so bothersome

[synthshenanigans]

I now have an alt account where I will post random things and talk about nonsensical ideas. If that sounds interesting have a go at it: @starfall-calamity >:}

#it'll be like stupid photos or memes n stuff too #just like. whatever i feel like posting & not clogging up other peoples feeds & notifications #also this isn't me losing interest in HMS/CJ at all i just wanna separate posts easier #like trust me. if i wanted to leave this interest i wouldve a LONG time ago. im stuck here & jash WONT let me out #its like those comments under the “does it sound familiar?” video #were all trapped in his basement & he wont let us go #yelling & screaming but all he does flip me the bird an call me a loser. while occasionally throwing a song at my skull #it is my only source of sustenance help #/j #moss post #also i realized i end up posting a fair bit under the cj tag [especially if you add the incorrect quotes. lyrics. & headcanons blog] #so i wanna post stuff without tags. so its not all cluttered #maybe im just overthinking things but oh well #overthinking is my main hobby after all/j

[ghostresidues]

phd update i worked on my application for 5 hours straight… now time to do essay work 😎

#5 hrs sounds ridiculous but this is a first draft going to a second draft #it is a biggg change and also there are so many little bits to add in like sources specific archival numbers etc etc etc #the mf form is 13 pages so that gives u an idea of the amount u have to do for it… #personal #university

[badolmen]

Damn didn’t realize deleting that post would remove the notification from my activity - anyways that Eva Bartlett channel that got nuked on YouTube? Sketchy as hell. Just a brief glance at her wiki suggests she’s a Russian propagandist - and tbh if the B’Tselem youtube page is still up I assume they nuked her channel for its Kremlin propaganda regarding Ukraine, not for her older recordings from Israel.

#ra speaks #israel #palestine #youtube #Eva Bartlett #was a bit confused when this lady I’ve never heard of who’s apparently been doc-ing Israel’s war crimes for years #got nuked but btselem (who’s channel goes back 17 years) was fine #shoulda checked my sources…damn I wish I didn’t delete the post until now wanted to add this addition #can’t even remember the op

[thormanick]

Ok so I was thinking about some stuff and in the end stumbled upon the question “but why does Traveler care about gnosis being taken away so much though???”

And while I think they care mostly bc of the stuff they know (that gnosis is the basis of archons’ powers, and taking it away can put a nation potentially at risk) + Venti&Signora moment,

I think there’s a tiiiiiiny tiny bit more to it, specifically that I now have a newly acquired headcanon that Traveler projects their trauma on the gods a little bit (their own powers were sealed/taken away from them against their will and they don’t want others to go through it)

#idk this was a VERY random thought I was actually thinking about the conflict between Lyney and Traveler lol #and then I was like #but WHY do we actually CARE SO MUCH about Fatui taking gnosis away #when we know already that gods can exist just fine without them #and something in my brain went o. projection mayhaps- #don’t get me wrong all other existing and previously established motivations are valid #I don’t remember at this point but we probably were told that Fatui are Super Mega Bad Guys even before Signora showed up #I just can’t recall exactly what or when was said lol it was that long ago #so like. it’s logical to not want the Bad Guy to have an unlimited source of power tm #but now I also add a bit of projection to that. sprinkle it in like salt- #genshin impact #afinna explores teyvat #genshin impact thoughts #genshin impact theory #genshin impact traveler #Genshin impact headcanon

[mixtercandy]

are your requests still open? and also do you have any fandoms/characters you REFUSE to draw?

don’t want to ask for things your uncomfortable with drawing, yk?

For the first part:

My requests r usually always open! it just takes time to get to some asks so its not like im never not taking rqs!

as for fandoms i refuse to draw-

•both of v*vzipop's shows r huge no-nos for me personally

•genshin is iffy for requests (unless its a comm or a close friend) so probably not

•i dont need to say anything abt terf-wizard-books or h*talia of course, i wouldnt touch that stuff

•most adult shows (i like bops burgrs tho) cus i know some of them have fandoms (wont name names)

and for characters

•william afton (cus he's like an old guy n i cant draw those, also can't vibe)

•most anipoke original characters cus im more attached to game characters n i dont vibe wit ash... (but i do vibe wit sawyer, horace & mairin tho!)

•like 2-3 of the girl pokemon protags cus i dont trust some of their fans (im so sorry girlies)

•h*soka

ty for the ask anon!! hapy to know theres ppl like u that ask abt boundaries & what stuff to avoid when rqs'n!!

#yknow its just really stuff that has iffy source material tbh! (and some stuff i just cant vibe wit that doesnt have iff source material) #cand posts #cand answers #sorry this took a bit to answer- i usually block out things (on tumblr & my mind) i dont like so it took some time to think #i dont even draw much hxh stuff but i do NOT fw that guy #other than all that- its really 50/50 cus i may not know what the fandom or charater is! but its always worth a shot to ask!! #for pkmn- its really just human characters idm drawing any creature #ty for the ask! i should probably add smth like this to my carrd & an extra list of characters/fandoms i woul LOVE to draw

[goodgriefwhatanerd]

You know what, I'm gonna say it. I don't even have any skin in this game, but antishippers with these flashing illegible banners that all boil down to "proshippers dni" are actively making this corner of tumblr less accessible.

Remember when there was that whole push about not making people of colour, disabled people, and non-women feel excluded in selfshipping spaces? Well turns out fuck people with disabilities who can't deal with flashing gifs for whatever reason, I guess. And fuck people who use screen readers because there's never an image description.

I'm not even that badly affected by this shit, but I just don't have the focus today to process written words when there's a visually overstimulating rectangle flashing two inches below what I'm trying to focus on. Stop that shit.

Keep your little fandom spat with your poorly defined terms, I really don't care, but stop making posts that are exclusionary or outright hostile to multiple disabled people in your community.

#and anyone who wants to add some stupid response to this first answer this question: #how are you improving the selfshipping community and making it more safe by adding flashing gifs to your otherwise innocuous text posts? #explain in 100-500 words. 3 marks. points will be docked for casual ableism and added for relevant sources and case studies #guess it's a day when a bit too much sensory input has turned me into a bitch. oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[waywardsalt]

anyways if you like linebeck as a silly pathetic wet meow meow dilf then go and watch tiger & bunny

#i think yall who like linebeck like that might get a kick out of kotetsu #linebeck #if you do watch tiger and bunny understand that you do not watch it for the plot ok #you watch it for the ‘plot’ (good character stuff generally interesting mini plots and the queer stuff) #also- maybe check out the movie after watching season. 1 cuz it properly introduces a guy that just shows up in season 2 #theres also some special that adds some stuff between some early chapters its not incredible important #but i think its the only place where you can find (in the source material) what one (main.) characters ability actually is #also watch with subs there is one character whose whole thing is that hes rlly quiet and i think its fine if you miss what he says but stil #also season two first half there are bits after the credits they add a tiny bit if context for some characters who show up later #tiger and bunny is good but really not flawless. have fun #the cgi is rlly good imo i barely care abt if it melds with the 2d it looks fucking good #anyways its not 1:1 ofc but i do think linebeck fans should give t&b a try. join me #i have to rewatch t&b but i need to watch kaiba first and im taking a break bc i finished monster and ough #salty talks