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hi all im in a bit of a financial rut and need to pay for medication so im reopening comms for a bit!

i'm taking $15 sketch commissions, colors come free ✌️ i can take cashapp or paypal (thru kofi!). you can contact me through here or on discord (univeige)

only taking 3 slots! thank you guys ^_^

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Oh my god how are they making a shitty movie about Iraq and no one told me

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“we need more weird art!” but not anything that makes me feel uncomfortable or alienated or challenged. “weird art” but i don’t want to consider the perspective of anyone i might have real irrevocable differences from. “weird art” but everything must be carefully couched in the language of white middle-class american sensibilities at all times. “weird art” but it has to be picked from a list of pre-established “weird” tropes that i recognize from carefully curated lists on letterboxd.

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in one of the servers I'm in, we've been discussing looking back at your old art, and a couple people mentioned that getting compliments on their old art makes them feel like their artistic growth isn't as evident to other people as it is to them, or like they havent improved as much as they thought for people to still be complimenting their old work

but it's really not like that! Your personal perception of your art is inherently going to be very different to the audience. This is how i explained it in there & i thought i'd share it here as well:

A compliment on your old art doesn't undermine the growth in your new art, it's just admiring the qualities of your work that were already there!

Our art can change direction, our grasp of the fundamentals can get stronger, and this means our personal standards will always go up and the choices we would make creating a piece change, so when you as the creator look back on your old art, you're hit with a lot of "oof, I'd do x and y and z differently now".

But your audience doesn't have any of those hangups, to them youve drawn some good art, and when they look at your current art, you're making even stronger art, and both of them are worth admiring.

not that any of this makes it any less psychic damage inducing to look at your own old art LOL but putting yourself in the shoes of the audience and looking at it for what it is rather than how well it reaches your current standards can still help a little with that

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guys. please

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which oc grew up in a strict household? did your oc follow the rules or were they more rebellious?

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Edgy vampire accessories except it's what vampire society would deem edgy by their perspective, so like. Brooches that are made to look like you've been stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake when you're wearing it, or plastic garlic earrings, sun motifs on clothing, bralecets / chain accessories that have little "silver" bullets, any accessories with a mirror on it just for funsies..

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Intersexism should be a cancel worthy offense. I want to see some of you fuckers apologize. I want people in this community to be made ashamed of their bigotry against intersex people.

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Hey. People in my inbox saying you relate with intersex experiences because you were put on hormones as a kid for a hormonal condition.

Perisex people aren't put on hormones as children for a hormonal condition. You are intersex. You've been told your intersex traits are a disorder and you have been deprived of your community. I encourage you to learn more about the intersex community and participate if you'd like to. This community saved me.

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Edgy vampire accessories except it's what vampire society would deem edgy by their perspective, so like. Brooches that are made to look like you've been stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake when you're wearing it, or plastic garlic earrings, sun motifs on clothing, bralecets / chain accessories that have little "silver" bullets, any accessories with a mirror on it just for funsies..

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Do you have any recs for interesting video essays abt fatphobia? I want to learn more and I like the video essay format but most of the results on YouTube when I search it up are just conservatives making fun of the concept of fatphobia. Thx!

those kinds of videos are so triggering, I’m happy to share some fat positive ones so you don’t have to sift through the trash!! the first two are video essays, the others are talks, presentations, and q&as. but all of these are very long.

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i love tragic characters who get their whole world ripped out from underneath them and then completely fuck themselves and everyone around them over in the most violent unnecessary ways imaginable

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Recipe for guilt-free doughnuts.

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shoutout to every person who deals with incontinence. i dealt with bedwetting up until my early teens, and now deal with stress and urge incontinence and for years never wanted to talk about it because of the shame and stigma other people place on not being able to control your bladder or bowel movements.

incontinence is a disability. it's not gross or wrong to talk about incontinence. incontinent people are not dirty or disgusting. if we could control these parts of our body, we would. we're not an inconvenience for being this way, and we don't have to be treated like a burden or like we need to be "fixed".

whether or not you use incontinent products like briefs, pads, diapers, plastic bed sheets, or whatever else, you are loved, important, and deserved to be seen when there are conversations about disability awareness and acceptance. we don't deserve to hide in shame when all we need is to be accommodated and accepted.

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its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

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Guys you need to fight for trans women. You need to be the biggest most aggressive and unwavering advocate for the trans women in your lives. You will not let anyone convince them to bury themselves. If they're forced to detransition or be closeted you will be there to hear them and know them as their true selves do you fucking understand. You will not let them continue to swallow their happiness until they choke.