#I am well aware

[yourfavecharacterisqueer]

Gwen: I want someone who knows things about nature.

Arthur: [Points to cloud] That’s a cloud. [Nods head proudly]

Gwen: I want that one.

[cocoabubbelle]

“UGH THE PLOT OF ELEMENTAL IS LITERALLY AN ASIAN GIRL DATING A WHITE GUY—!”

The “white” guy:

Are you sure about that?

[arlertbitcx]

i know why he did it but WHYYYY DID HE SIGN ON FOR MORE MISSIONS I FINALLY HAD PEACE KNOWING HE WAS GOING HOME. if anything happens to him im going to freak . out

[toads-treasures]

Spotify what the fuck man

[skyward-floored]

Hey, re: these tags here...

... I want to let you know that I was there about five years ago. Didn't get out much (hardly got out at all, really), didn't mesh well with a lot of people. I had given up hope of finding anyone.

Don't lose hope. You never know what miracles God will drop into your life.

Thanks. I know there's absolutely no rush and that I'm still rather young by most standards, and there's people out there, it's just. Yeah. Gets hard.

[eastoncowan]

there’s no bond like that of a blogger and their emotional support third line defenceman

[caparrucia]

You ever see fanart that screams "I played 3 hours out of a 120 hour RPG, half a decade ago, and I have since consumed nothing but fan works produced by a very specific corner of the fandom"?

[the-golden-ghost]

100% for the OC asks!

100%. Does your character resemble anybody famous?

Oh this'll be a fun one for Davy

So I've been asked before if Davy was based off of Captain Nemo because when I draw them, they look pretty similar. However, the answer is no and they aren't really supposed to look the same either. Nemo is older and is supposed to be Adonis Level Handsome and unduly attractive. Davy is supposed to be a scrawny nerd with a slightly Unsettling disposition. The reason they look alike in my art is purely because they both have dark hair and beards, and I can't draw for jack shit so everyone has Same Face Syndrome.

However Davy WAS based off a certain character type - there's like a Breed of early sci-fi villain that looks like a dark-haired, pale-skinned man with a beard and I'm like "yeah he could look like that." I don't know if it was a specific trope or just the fashion of the time though. The specific one where I decided to model him like that was the guy from Forbidden Planet.

Whether that sort of character design was based off Captain Nemo I do not know, but I don't think so. Nemo was depicted in the original illustrations of the book as a dark-haired bearded man, but the book itself never said whether he had a beard or not and I don't think it mentioned his hair color either. Besides that, the characters predate the 1950s 20000 Leagues film everyone knows. Before that was the 1917 one, and Nemo's beard in that was white.

[commissionsdarian]

Darian's orthodox believes?

Had to do a quick search to check you weren't saying I was part of the orthodox Christian church. I'm athiest, whether there's a god or not, I'd rather not believe in a god that allows the shit on Earth to happen. But general beliefs? I like the sound of utilitarianism

[deepdive002]

Can you text me privately?

sure, what's up?

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

Learn your history!!!!

[tamlins-stories-and-poems]

“Lactose-free” has been tried, it’s a different protein that dad’s allergic to. Luckily it’s not so bad that we can’t keep real milk in the house, which means my sibling prefers, and when feeding friends, we always at least double check which allergies or other restrictions we need to watch for.

We’ve tried all sorts of milk alternatives, and all have different preferences for different situations, so mostly we just keep what dad likes to drink in the house, but when we’re baking we’ll usually choose almond when milk is needed, unless we’re feeding someone with a nut allergy, then our next choice is oat.

Yeah, you’d really think “Dairy-free” and “milk-free” would be so much more common. Until they become so, we just do half our shopping at health food stores that are better about labeling and small allergy-friendly brands. At least we can afford to, even if not everyone can :/

I appreciate the attempt to help! Dad has been handling this for forty odd years now (allergy was developed, not inherent), Mom’s been eating with him for ages, and us kids have grown up with these sorts of things in mind, so we all have a pretty good understanding of what’s available and what to check.

the uncommon allergy haver to anticapitalist pipeline

[aueua]

people with siblings: how do you feel about them?

[momopatchi]

This year's birthday animation

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[chancheols]

All this nonsense with Taylor Swift has violently reminded that people will really bend themselves over backwards to infantalise and victimise white women. Reminds me of Megan Fox and MGK and how people were acting like she was being held hostage in that relationship....as if she isn't an adult with agency....