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Roselyn / Crypto circa... 2022?

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I don't have nearly enough normal types (I'm not calling them that in the final but same thing), do people like uhhhhh lystrosaurus? that's a cute mascot animal right?

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a lot of times the difference between messy art and clean art or imperfect art and perfect art or bad art and good art is that the former actually gets finished and the latter stays an idea you punish yourself with

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honestly sometimes stories where characters have self awareness and solve their problems maturely can be really refreshing sometimes. and sometimes it feels like therapyspeak slop. intense stories where no one is capable of understanding themselves and act out in incorrect ways can be very fun. and sometimes it feels like contrived bullshit. whatever makes "a good story" is harder to make happen than just using the right kind of characters using the right words

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Congratulation to the white spotting tournament (cat edition) champion:

Chiyo!

A deserved win, truly exclusive pattern!

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The more I read into reports about industrial and transportation accidents the less I feel like “operator error” actually exists

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Local goat discovers joy of painting

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Reading my own WIP fanfictions with immense annoyance going "Man, when's the last time she updated this? God..."

And then exiting because I don't know what happens next, only past me do, and she's not here rn

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still practicing my humans so here's some rough little doodles at different ages for the main characters of the fanfics i've been writing bc i was thinking about it after a convo earlier

cain/gold at 8, pre-transition and pre-getting hit by a truck vs the current day (i.e. New Leaves). pre-transition, moons were a big theme of all his clothing and accessories, and his online handle still references the moon (this is also why clefairy/clefable are his favourite pokemon)

lance at 11 vs lance in the current day without any of his usual "cover up the lack of sleep" makeup. he doesn't smile with his teeth as much now for reasons (various) and he always looks just this little bit worried and worn when he's not wearing his public face

and silver at 10 vs the current day. silver was an extremely unhappy kid who didn't really get to determine anything about himself until after giovanni and arianna abandoned him. growing out his hair was his first-ever act of rebellion when he was 13-14. he's a lot happier now but he still doesn't really know how to expressions

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I want someone to make one of these new sterile teen gay romance shows on Netflix but halfway through they pull a Doki Doki Literature Club and it turns into a fucked up fourth wall breaking psychological thriller that deconstructs the heteronormative and middle class ideals of the genre

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still practicing my humans so here's some rough little doodles at different ages for the main characters of the fanfics i've been writing bc i was thinking about it after a convo earlier

cain/gold at 8, pre-transition and pre-getting hit by a truck vs the current day (i.e. New Leaves). pre-transition, moons were a big theme of all his clothing and accessories, and his online handle still references the moon (this is also why clefairy/clefable are his favourite pokemon)

lance at 11 vs lance in the current day without any of his usual "cover up the lack of sleep" makeup. he doesn't smile with his teeth as much now for reasons (various) and he always looks just this little bit worried and worn when he's not wearing his public face

and silver at 10 vs the current day. silver was an extremely unhappy kid who didn't really get to determine anything about himself until after giovanni and arianna abandoned him. growing out his hair was his first-ever act of rebellion when he was 13-14. he's a lot happier now but he still doesn't really know how to expressions

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eventually I'm going to write something better and more fleshed out than this but I fucking hate how 'ableism' gets watered down to the point that calling anything 'ableist' at all turns you into a caricature in the minds of people who never took ableism seriously in the first place. people already see accessibility as some kind of extravagant demand of the over-privileged and they always have. and the way they engage with discussions about disability are shaped by that. including the fact that (perhaps seemingly, perhaps actually) laughable accusations of ableism get more attention than they should. which reinforces the accusations of 'accessibility as a privilege' over and over again until 'disabled' is synonymous for 'whinger and bitcher and complainer'. do you know what I mean.

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Different Stories Resonate with Different People

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the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

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