#amystarrstuff

[carbonateddelusion]

hi!! im the op of the genderswap poll and your tags made me so happy bc i thought i was the only person who liked mtf to ftm genderswaps!! i think they're so cool and have a lot of room for character exploration!!

YEEES I'm so happy that YOU'RE happy!!!

It feels so reductive to boil it down to strictly "big action man" to "big booby lady with no muscle". while that certainly happens a lot, it's excluding a lot of different cool ways to explore gender and sex!!! like, I'll use my character Jack as just an example

Jack is someone who, as the oldest male sibling outta their family, grew up with a LOT of toxic masculinity drilled into their brain. they felt like they had to be the big strong protector, never show anything other than anger and happiness, and that if they relaxed even slightly, everybody around them would get hurt. but when they're older and have a partner, they suddenly feel way more stable and socially transition to nb! they can wear lipstick, earrings, etc.- stuff they would've been terrified to touch beforehand. and it's freeing! but just because they have more freedom doesn't mean that that toxic masculinity they were soaked in leaves completely; he's still very scared of becoming an abuser and losing himself.

and then I LOVE Jill, who is the genderswapped version of him, because the societal pressures change and that changes how they grow as a character! Jill is butch- instead of feeling like they have to prove themself to be a "real man", they feel like they have to prove that they're as STRONG as a cis man. this also intertwines with their bisexuality; because Jill is visibly gnc off the bat, they accept it way sooner because they're already getting heat for being gnc. and that's just scratching the surface :]

[officialgleamstar]

howdy! i saw your tags on the genderbend post and wanted to say that the sentiment of "i want to see more varied female character designs" is shared with a lot of other people! going into making the poll, i hadn't even considered it, but you're absolutely right and i agree!! :D

YAY I GOT A GOOD GRADE IN GENDERBEND OPINIONS :D i love your poll for not taking a biased side btw bgjhbghjfd its such a like. gray area topic i find - i did find a lot of genderbends offensive growing up, but i also was really attached to them because they were a fun way to explore my multigender identity, and i absolutely love them now jbfhjbghjdbj so many mixed emotions <33 im glad youre running it, i like seeing everyones thoughts :]

[soulsbetrayed]

amystarrstuff asked: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARGALIA

"Many thanks to you." he laughs heartily but there was a clear sense of sorrow in his tone. It was frankly lonely today as it was his sister's birthday as well.

"Now how to celebrate though?" All he was doing was hiding his grief with a mask of frivolity and merriment

@amystarrstuff

[animusbell]

howdy!! i saw your tags on the genderswap poll and, regarding the discourse surrounding it, i actually haven't seen anyone arguing that they're inherently transphobic, moreso that they're personally uncomfortable with it!

i agree that i don't think there's anything transphobic about them necessarily (weird people will be weird though. as usual) and i think they're an underutilized way to explore a character's relationship with gender! as a trans person myself, i think they can be used respectfully and in interesting ways as well :D

you know, i am really glad to hear that, because i'm positive that some years back there was somehow a big consensus that genderbends were capital-P Problematic(TM). (included w the whole movement to rename it "cisswap" for reasons i dont remember?) so maybe that was happening in a smaller bubble than I was aware of, or people have actually just moved on from that thought. either way, i'm glad!

(and agreed!! i don't actively seek 'em out much but when i see 'em they're usually pretty neat)

[eyesoftxmorrow]

hiya hiya! i saw your tags on the genderswap poll and wanted to agree, while a lot of genderswaps are just bioessentialist and reduce developed characters into Predefined Gender Role, seeing people put actual thought into how a character would change if their gender was different makes me really happy!! it's especially interesting to see people do it with their ocs and blorbos, bc it gives them an opportunity to think about what gender means to that character! :D

THISSSS YOU GET IT!! its a really cool way to explore the 'what-if's of a character but only if its done responsibly 👍

[iloveyoubecauseyouarelove]

heyhey! im here from the genderswap poll >:)

i wanted to jump in and agree with you abt genderswaps where a character is trans in the opposite way, i think it's a great way to analyze how a character feels about their own gender and queerness!! :D

This!!!

It's fascinating to me! Sometimes you just gotta explore these and make a character explore them too yanno

[astro-b-o-y-d]

heyhey! i saw your tags on the genderswap poll and... you'd be surprised how many people have talked about realizing they're trans because of some genderswap art!!

Ahaha, yeah I looked at a few of the tags and it does look to be a pretty common trend! Although I feel like it usually works in the opposite way it did for me, where people look at a genderbend and want to be that gender rather than simply being confused as to why ANYONE would want to look like that.

[r0achlezbian]

hiya, i'm here bc i saw your tags on the genderswap poll!

funny enough, i also got curious bc of the number of people i saw putting "no genderbends" on artfight, and wondered how most trans people felt about it!!

so far the results have been super interesting, and i wanted to thank you for writing tags :D

that does seem to be a pretty common rule on art fight LOL

no problem on the tags! it's a concept i've seen a loot of discourse over in years past so i've formed Opinions

[original-character-championship]

Bracket H First Half!!!!

These characters will enter the competition on sunday 23rd at 5pm gmt!!!

449. Ms Plum (@sandtastesgreater)

450. James (@snowflakeb0ttles)

451. Lucille (@vifandom)

452. Devi Fuentes (@ditzycranium)

453. NERF (@nen-kaii)

454. Bruce the Just (@bruce-stan)

455. Andy "Ampersand" Anderson (@porcelain-animatronic)

456. Tanya (@queerousel)

457. Dee (@ashenberry)

458. Klara October Mayford (@parzi-parzival)

459. Caleb Hollyhock (@lotshusband)

460. Andre Lopez (@sweettoothvn)

461. Kairos aka Alexander Pascall (@amxthystiine)

462. Kaleido (@drawn-corrosion)

463. Verity - Cygnet system (@eudaemonix)

464. Hasani (@nerdtastically-weird)

465. Sleepover Kid (@maddestmewmew)

466. Ferry (@amystarrstuff)

467. Citrine (@tenmillionmice)

468. Josephine (@p-o-3)

469. Cefax (@twizzta)

470. Charlie & Aster & Romeo & Silas (@no-squirrels-were-harmed)

471. Nubby (@fadedfaeble)

472. Scott al Iqbal (@thatonecrowguy)

473. Dawn Hughes (@torkhin)

474. Felix (@patronsaintofdemons)

475. Vizard (@kreidxpriz)

476. Wiibun & Kelvin (@catboybeebop)

477. Blaire (@ghosts-gone)

478. Cassady (@anshiel)

479. God (@sometimesilikeeatingrawcorn)

480. Carnelia "Carrie" (@cornfieldsrambles)

[ghostlygunk]

4, 7? :-]

(ARTIST QUESTIONS)

4. What defines your artistic style?

THATS TTOUGH LMAO uhhhh probly lack of anti-aliasing ? i like my pointy lineart...

7. Show us at least one picture you drew or sketched recently that you did not put on a public site.

y'know what i COULD put a drawing of smth actually neat here like some of the drawings of my characters in outfits or in textposts but i'm putting this here instead. featuring alyssa and ray (left to right) from @amystarrstuff's brain

[friendcorp]

Pinned Info Post!

Welcome to FriendCorp! Friend Corp is a Day 50 run of the game Lobotomy Corporation in which we only hire agents from the community! We're accepting submissions but please keep it to 1 nugget per person and please only submit nuggets who you made.

Submitted nuggets will always have the the owner/creator credited after the nugget's name. Example: Blorbo [BlorboMakerBlog]

This blog is Managed by: @northwest-cryptid

and @neapolitanrime https://twitter.com/neapolitanrime https://www.twitch.tv/neapolitanrime

The Blog Icon was made by: @silence-kris

The Blog Header was made by: @blahblahdummy All art is used with the permission of the artists.

If you want to submit your blorbo/nuggets we kindly ask you to include:

A name for the character

An image that shows generally which hair/eyes/mouth to use and which colors to use for the hair. Images using the in game menus are ideal however everything from drawings to Picrews are acceptable! Any image is better than no image.

Which department you'd like them to be in (giving a backup department would help too because we're actually starting to fill up some of the more popular early game departments)

The current list of all Agents is as follows and will be updated as we go:

Control: 1 - Randomly Generated Employee (Dia) 2 - Marx [@something-soup-something] 3 - Rain [@ordei] 4 - Geminiano [@peachymun-from-georgia] 5 - Kanna [@thatguyappreciator]

Information: 1 - Julian [@firebuug] 2 - Yuri [@polyydeucess] 3 - Tori [@northwest-cryptid] 4 - Archer [@supazupa] 5 - Merry [@anomaly-beans]

Safety: 1 - Reinhardt [@branch-wdk53] 2 - Maki [@pinchbee] 3 - Epsilon27 [@5thcloud] 4 - Xavier [EC] 5 - Lunas [@chesedwithacap]

Training: 1 - Foosball [@hydrojoy] 2 - Bella [@uniquezombiedestiny] 3 - Morrigan [@attack-viridiant] 4 - Maritza [@simikae] 5 - Kiminsung [@eepiest-malkuth]

Central Control: 1 - Remi [@notvess] 2 - Ray [@amystarrstuff] 3 - Gabriel [@almondes] 4 - Matty [@profoundpsychicfarmkid] 5 - Yuri [@eclectic-sunflower]

Central Control 2: 1 - Sergey [@chekuth-w] 2 - Asera [@yukitarei] 3 - Vanessa [@cryptice1kz] 4 - Maxine [@fluffralsei] 5 - Odelie [@venoshocked]

Welfare: 1 - Emma [@logirby] 2 - Kimhanseul [@mandorin-moranges] 3 - Lucas [@bestelf] 4 - Lychee [@enderpearlgurl13] 5 - Victoria [@ohmewhatsthis]

Disciplinary: 1 - Kimlek [@magician7] 2 - Poussey [@mistwolfdaumbreon] 3 - Nea [@neapolitanrime] 4 - Marion [@zombie-ladymacbeth] 5 - Alwina [@raincloud020604]

Records: 1 - Professor [@kira-moonrabbit] 2 - Goodie [@observancesys] 3 - Hannah [@okawarihappylife] 4 - Samuel [@p-o-3] 5 - Chicken Nugget [@chaoticalrequiem]

Extraction: 1 - OJ [@pascal-oswell] 2 - Avion [@cosmic-courtroom] 3 - Neville [@boneeatingbitch] 4 - Corbinian [@compleatedsadboy] 5 - Soccy [@apocalypsearsonist]

Architecture: 1 - POLYGON [@worivrst] 2 - Sergey [@tatonslice] 3 - Broski [@wanderinganywhere] 4 - Yoon-Hoo [@celestialiisland] 5 -

Total: 54/55

[cashewes]

They haven’t been hired yet, but Central Control team 1 lives rent free in my head- I can’t wait for what kind of shenanigans they’ll get into! hehehehe :)

The following OCs belong to their respective creators:

Remi - @notvess

Ray - @amystarrstuff

Matty - @profoundpsychicfarmkid

Yuri - @eclectic-sunflower

Gabriel - Me!

@friendcorp

[leaf-storm-40]

happy birthday @amystarrstuff !

get caked lol

[ghostlygunk]

@amystarrstuff

colorblindness check! make sure you can see all of the shapes in the circles; if not, that might mean you've lost some of your ability to see color!

[quackspot]

hey I saw your tags on that post of mine you reblogged and... out of all my cr friends I'm basically the only person who brings up Firecracker making duck noises??? like that's fuckin exactly what it sounds like how do yall ignore that

YEA?????? ?? ? ?? ? ?? ? ? ?

i heard it when they were being premiered and was like “ahaha that reminds me of donald duck” or maybe just a rubber duck.   i havent heard an actual duck in a while O_O

[original-character-championship]

Bracket H Round 1

Poll 9

Sleepover Kid (@maddestmewmew) vs. Ferry (@amystarrstuff)

465. Sleepover Kid (@maddestmewmew)

She/They/Xe

OHOHOHO…her nonbinary slay, her losergirl swag. she is mentally ill and doesnt know it. shes immortal and doesnt care one bit. she is the child of a god and chooses to spend her time watching hannah montannah bc she is 9 years old. she doesnt have a family. everyone is her family. she gives makeovers to murderers. mabel pines if mabel pines could do whatever she wanted forever. she has a fish named bobo. she is YOUR best friend. she thinks its 2003. come to her house in a pocket dimension for a sleepover, there will be lemonade and brownies.

5’2 with tan skin. long dark brown straight hair with blunt bangs. her left eye (our right) is permanently half lidded. a matching set of pink hello kitty pajamas. yellow slippers. demon horns, tail, and wings. there are scrunchies around the horns.

466. Ferry (@amystarrstuff)

He/Him

he's a pathetic manwhore

an objecthead with a grinning white mask. dresses sluttily because he knows he's good looking.