#based vs cringe

[aromanticduck]

Four legs based, two legs cringe

[licorice-my-beloved-archived]

Licorice giving one of those "evil bad" speeches once she gets redeemed (probably idk)

Licorice Cookie Reforms

[i-am-creacheur]

being in a fandom but not being an artist is physically painful. There is so much you become unable to do- mock up headcanon designs, show off your OC, tell stories in engaging and easy to access ways, join drawing trends, not be able to do any individual ideas for drawings or animations you have yourself. It feels awful, like my wings are clipped, like I am a fish in a birdcage watching all the pretty birds flying around, calling out for others to join in- oh, and how I long to.

"Ooohh but you can just start drawing and posting your drawings whenever and whatever your skill level! No one will make fun of you-" WRONG. I have had multiple bad in-fandom experiences related to posting my practice art and people tearing me apart. I have seen beginner artists and, to my horror, disected their art in my head, judging it against everything I have seen in the past. It's awful, I wish I could stop, but sadly this kind of thing is hardwired into many non-artists (and some artists as well) minds. Sure, ten people may like my art and three people may praise me, but that's unknowable amounts more who saw it, ignored it, stared at and laughed.

And if you don't have prior experience drawing, or references, or any good materials/drawing mediums? If you are unable to keep up with drawing trends? Unable to perform or render or download any art or animation software? Well, you may as well be dirt. It's honestly feels like there's a whole cultural or class divide between artists and writers, as I once said I was branching out of writing and doing art, and got so much more praise than normal. All of this feels so fucked on so many levels. There is a reason I never post my art on my blog, besides it mostly being fuckass doodles, but even the pieces I am proud if never see the light of day.

I am just sick of how you automatically become "better" if you are a talented artist, and how everyone shits on beginners.

(This is based of my own experiences and I am tagging this with my own fandoms. Feel free to add on your own thoughts and expand fandom tags in reblogs.)

[isa-ah]

I refuse to rewatch it but BBC Sherlock was probably the first time in my life I realized what queerbaiting really actually meant

[devilanon]

the discourse around rape fics is so funny to me because it’s 99% of the time people who’ve never been sexually abused crying about how it’s trivializing rape. guess what I got raped a whoooole bunch and I still love horrible dark fiction. And it’s not a contest but I got child trafficked AND raped as an adult so I’m like the final boss of rape victims and I say it’s actually cool and strong and powerful to explore dark themes in fiction responsibly and internet crybabies are never going to make me feel bad about how I cope with and interact with my trauma. Bangs gavel

[teen-heart-throb-mr-hyde]

every day i am thinking about that one exchange between jekyll and utterson in the ‘95 tour. the “i believe that man is basically good, every moral man believes that.” “i do not believe that.” moment. like. what the fuck.

[beardedhandstoadshark]

Diversity win! The localization of a wildy popular indie show on youtube dropped a "Na, ihr Nudeln?“ in 2024!

[cqcandchill]

the fact that s^mteron gets so much wrong about the influence of n^zi aesthetics (something specifically tied to fascism as an overall concept) and ideology on modern culture is almost enough to make me want to start making video essays about What Actually Happened For Real

bc like. there are truly a lot of interesting things to say there! esp bc there was an intersection btwn weimar germany's queer culture and the emergent fascist homophobic hyper-masculinity of the third r^ich. you have röhm, a highly regarded founding member of the party, whose gayness is an open secret. you have a queer underground that is an open secret, gay and lesbian magazines, nightclubs, and a ground-breaking sex institute that revolutionizes early gender affirming treatments for trans ppl. and a bunch of other gender essentialism going on in the background

... i don't know if i could survive going down a rabbit hole that deep w/o suffocating. i am at the point where some of the stuff i write for my ocs has a bibliography of books, primary sources and research papers. and he is missing so much commentary on things like the influence of german philosophy, the changing urban/rural demographic density, pre-wwi german culture, post-wwi german culture, antisemitism, racial ideology/eugenics, misogyny, historiography of wwii, it goes on................ to say nothing about ignoring leyendecker, rockwell, tom of finland etc

[randomgooberness]

grrrgrrrgrrr i want to be more cringe but im so so scared of being more crgine i feel like this v 

[dogesterone]

trying to fruitlessly explain to this random guy on the light rail that omniscience is a horrible superpower because you lose all agency and sense of self and you just become a helpless mechanism by which the world moves forward

[henrysglock]

what i would give to hear El Hopper call someone bitchless

[chronicas]

So it was my mom and stepdad’s wedding today and while they were taking pictures my stepdad found a spider and asked their photographer to take a picture of it because I was elsewhere. Later in the evening we sprinted across the venue so he could show me the spider in person with our flashlights.

Anyways should I get him one of those “not the stepdad, I’m the dad who stepped up” shirts? For funsies.

[teslathelame]

tesla's kin bracket: round 1 match 1

[snobgoblin]

why would u use wojaks when they're are so many good low quality bloody stick men out there

[perfectnothing]

let your spirit leave your body i am god and you’re nobody

please don’t tag as kin/me