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I've tried Skyrim. It's alright.

I took a nap and had a dream where I was at a train station's fancy bookstore, which had even fancier hardcover sets of Harry Potter. This meme had been printed out and slipped inside each copy.

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👑 Queen Mother Cerura 🦋 Beloved matriarch of the royal Vinula family. Cerura's word is respected over all others, even after giving the throne to her daughter. She now takes on the role of a doting grandmother to her grandson, Prince Cater.

This lady was made for a Discord server's art challenge - create a character based off of a type of moth! Cerura and Cater are based off of the Puss Moth. This is just an excuse for me to make a pun off of the term grandmother.

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workin' on the MiA theories video.

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I'm writing this to send you words of encouragement, I am deeply sorry that you've been receiving very harsh remarks and harrasment from your Made in Abyss and Hazbin videos.

For the one, People should let others enjoy the things they take interests in and not bully them for liking it.

For the latter, It's embarrassing to see how toxic the fandom has been in recent days. Makes me embarrassed that I (somewhat) liked this thing in the first place, and Viv isn't really doing herself any better. It sucks a lot since she's been an influence to me, my sense of art, and love for animation. granted shes not the only influence around 2012, and I've since found other inspirations as I grew

Just know that there are people out there who understand where you come from, and accept and respect your boundaries and interest.

I pray for you better and brighter days in the future, and to your future as an artist :)

I kinda went off on a rant, so I put my response under the cut:

The negative Hazbin comments don't bother me, but I wanted to publicly post about them because harassment against anyone who even slightly has criticism against Hazbin is absolutely rampant. I think the creator definitely encourages them. She would regularly like tweets of people tearing apart critics and direct her fanbase towards the original criticism. It's a covert way of encouraging harassment, because she can easily say "I'm just liking the people defending the show!"

She's had a history of being a nasty person in public and behind the scenes, but I don't care enough to compile a list of receipts. Other people have done it already, and I'm knee deep in the MiA theories video editing right now, but they're out there.

The comment I posted wasn't nearly the worst one I've gotten, too. It just so happened to be the most recent one. I should've collected all of them and compiled them, because there were some real gems that I deleted. And by gems I mean people calling me slurs lmao. My Hazbin review may be an incoherent mess, but I never once insulted the fans or creators of the show, and yet they act like I shot someone.

There's a YouTuber, Limus, who created a video talking about why they didn't like Angel Dust's portrayal in Hazbin, from the perspective of them being a male SA survivor, and how it made them quit the show. It was a hard watch because I could really feel their pain come through.

And then the Hazbin fandom fucking tore them apart and wished them death because they DARED to say that they thought the shitty spider abuse yaoi was poorly made.

A person's life and well-being should never come second to your opinions on a piece of media.

The MiA harassment is what gets to me, because it's not fellow fans of MiA doing it, but people who don't understand the show and just want to harass others as a way to feel good about themselves. They accuse fans of being p---philes and whatnot because they have a warped idea of what the show is. It really messed me up because I started to believe I was a harmful person for liking the show.

No matter what one's tastes in fiction are, no matter what art they may appreciate or create, that stuff doesn't determine whether or not you're a good person. You can consume the most wholesome, inoffensive, fluffy things ever and be a vile person. Inversely, you can consume the most fucked up, depraved, and shocking fiction and be a lovely person. I don't understand why modern fandom equates interests with morality. I thought we as a society were over this.

Once again, a person's life and well-being should never come second to your opinions on a piece of media.

If the person dislikes something you like, or likes something you dislike, whatever, who cares, just log off. Nobody's harming anyone by liking or disliking a cartoon.

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I took a nap and had a dream where I was at a train station's fancy bookstore, which had even fancier hardcover sets of Harry Potter. This meme had been printed out and slipped inside each copy.

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Signals of the Soul - Eyes of Irumyuui and Kevin Penkin's Musical Meanings

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there's been a lot of talk about chubby gal characters this fat girl fall, so have a sketch of my gal jean. she's a magical girl with a giant hammer and is the powerhouse of her team.

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Yup. I’ve also had my gender identity attacked in the comments. Viv herself has a documented history of transphobia against trans men, and subtly encouraging harassment of people who dislike her work by her Twitter likes, and I think that enables the fans to perpetuate that. The show and the creator enable these attitudes of harassment. It’s a problem that goes to the very core of this fandom.

I genuinely ache for the fans of HH and HB who are kind and mild people. I’ve had conversations with kind fans who have given me new insight into what they see in the shows. Yet I’ve had far more negative encounters, and so many others have as well.

It’s just a TV show and I have problems with it as a narrative experience, but I don’t think anyone’s a bad person for liking it. I never went after the fans or the creators in my video, but I’ve received so many comments attacking me as a person rather than rebutting my arguments.

This isn’t the first ableist comment I’ve gotten on my Hazbin Hotel video and it won’t be the last. I’m not offended, but my god, the amount of times I and other people who dislike Hazbin have received ableist comments is absurd.

We just dislike a cartoon and these guys are saying we must have childhood brain trauma because we dislike it? Chill out.

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btw I invite anyone who's criticized Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss to include instances of HH/HB fans being ableist, sexist, transphobic, or other forms of attacking your character rather than your arguments to share them in the reblogs.

This isn’t the first ableist comment I’ve gotten on my Hazbin Hotel video and it won’t be the last. I’m not offended, but my god, the amount of times I and other people who dislike Hazbin have received ableist comments is absurd.

We just dislike a cartoon and these guys are saying we must have childhood brain trauma because we dislike it? Chill out.

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This isn’t the first ableist comment I’ve gotten on my Hazbin Hotel video and it won’t be the last. I’m not offended, but my god, the amount of times I and other people who dislike Hazbin have received ableist comments is absurd.

We just dislike a cartoon and these guys are saying we must have childhood brain trauma because we dislike it? Chill out.

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A handful of assets I made for class. I made a little video game starring these characters, who are for a larger magical girl project of mine.

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I haven't had much time to draw outside of classwork, beyond doodling in my sketchbook. Here's a handful of doodles.

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Not tolerating transphobia is sexism??? Not allowing hateful comments is bulling??? Did everyone take stupid pills or something??? Just because you like a show doesn’t mean you agree with everything the creator says or does. I’m so sorry you got hate for so stupid of reasons

thank you anon ;w;;

Comments like those really are taxing on my mental health. I want to keep making videos but this asinine backlash really gets to me.

I also don't want to have to decry all the stuff in MiA that I dislike/don't agree with whenever I talk about the show because it brings the mood down. I just want to focus on the positive parts or the topic at hand instead of having to make a disclaimer every time.

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There’s someone posting real photos and gifs of gore in the Mouthwashing tags and I keep getting them on my For You tab. This website fucking sucks.

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A pair of Narehate find themselves lost in the Abyss...

This was part of a Discord server challenge where we all draw a pair of eyes, are paired up with someone else's eyes, and we have to create a character with them. So, I came up with this Blessed lil fella, and his Cursed buddy!

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i just want to make videos about my special interest instead of spiraling into an OCD panic attack for fuck's sake

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Gosh darn tootin Elder Scrolls...

They ruined The Elder Scrolls!

Back in my day they were the YOUNG scrolls!!