#This sucks honestly

[simbasomba]

Guys…how would you feel if I drew lesbians? (And gave Courtney a Redesign)

[carly404error]

Hey! So my tablet broke or exploded or something and it’s not turning on, it’s definitely not a battery thing since last time I used it it was around 80% battery? Yeah, so this means there won’t be any digital art until things get solved, which is a pain in the ass bc I was working on shit and trying out new ways of rendering and colouring that I wanted later to post and see if y’all liked it.

Whats worse is that I had to do a video project for school and I cannot edit it or do anything, I have no alternatives so this is fun haha (I even was going to do some animation to personalise it a bit maaaannn…).

Anyways yeah, don’t expect high quality art I may just post doodles I have lying around or something.

[superbacongirl]

[bee-unknown]

I left my house at 11:30 and I'm still going to get to my friends house past 1 pm, not because her house is far but because of the fucking buses

Mark my words

Edit: I WAS RIGHT it's 13:08 and I know it isn't that bad but I was planning to get here at 12

[cotehardie]

went to hozier concert last night and....I fear I may no longer have the stamina or emotional capacity to attend even medium capacity-level shows anymore

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[artsekey]

Thinking about the time I lost a game of Overwatch and I was so mad about it that I genuinely considered getting into shit with the other team in chat and then realized that it was a colossal waste of my living breathing Human Time and uninstalled Overwatch instead because it was only making me angry.

And then thought about the OTHER time when I was on TikTok and realized I was Not Enjoying Myself and was, in fact, seeing so many sad videos and fake influencer ads that I felt Truly Despondent and then just…Deleted it.

Imo I want my social media /general media experience to be a pleasant break from real world and I get to decide what I get to cull to make that a reality for myself. I highly reccomended it! Life has improved considerably!

[ghoulbats]

well….it finally happened

[i-am-a-fish]

this year I will become a powerful lesbian

[nortess]

birth of venus except it sucks!

[egophiliac]

like mother, like son, but less wholesome this time?

(I couldn't decide whether or not to put them together, so have them in all the different ways!)

[benevolenterrancy]

Scholarly peak is catching up on recent literature

[glassrunner]

"Fuck, man. What else is there to say?"

Excerpts from the BoJack Horseman Pony Express

MOUTHWASHING (2024), dev. Wrong Organ

[tofupixel]

twitter is doing something really dumb again so expect some refugees

i’m gonna stop posting my art there except to selfpromo now :,-)

[dykephan]

oh phil wanted to share a real ick but it would've been tooooo real

[solarpunkani]

Hot 4am take but I feel like if we want to get people more interested in making their yards a more habitable space for wildlife like insects, we have to acknowledge that ‘Don’t want bugs in your house’ is still a 100% fair and valid point of view. ‘Loves nature’ and ‘doesn’t want roaches spiders and mosquitoes in the house’ aren’t opposites.

And with that in mind, when we propose to people that spraying pesticides around houses is Not A Good Idea, Actually, I feel like we need to give an alternative asides from ‘deal with it.’