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tbh its not entirely fair to paint all blatant rep as poor in comparison to queercoding (altho i do love some good queercoding). i think the reason so much blatant rep is Like That, while queercoded stuff feels so much more meaningful and real, is because the blatant rep we often experience is made to Market To The Queers. while it may have queer creatives working on it, the reason its created is to make money off of queers. its trendy. so just write a fairly surface level fluffy movie about white queer teens and get some cash! its blatant, which means it will be treated as a groundbreaking queer media especially by liberals.
while queercoded media on the other hand (intentional or not) cant or wont just slap two conventionally attractive teens on screen and make them kiss and get those rainbow dollars. its an expression of queer silencing, the quiet thats left when you arent allowed to say what you desperately want to. when you cant spoon-feed your audience queerness you have to. yknow. actually think about what it means and how to express that artistically. you have to show and not tell.
thats all to say, there is blatant queer rep that is good. but you probably aren't gonna find it on amazon prime. that kind of rep is being made by queer artists making indie films. i promise you its not either "blatant queerness that feels shallow" or "deep queerness thats not allowed to be blatant". theres a secret third option and its "capitalism will never liberate you and you need to actually support indie queer artists and actively reject queer capitalism to experience the breadth and width of what queer art is capable of being and doing."
#m.#like verilybitchie has talked about “bad queer rep” in a video essay (check her out)#and she mentioned one bisexual tv show made by a bisexual#that was both blatant and interesting#or uhhh that transfem vampire movie#like. this shit exists. you just need to put effort into#breaking free from spoonfed capitalist media and interact w indie art#not trying to be pretentious either!#if you enjoy fluffy capitalist queer media good for you fr thats 100% fine#and its not NOT important that we CAN have that pandering now#but like. from an artistic standpoint#capitalism prioritizes money not art. it will never care about you#queer media is only being produced bc enough people will go see it that studios will put it out#its not even a matter of homophobia rlly. we only matter as long as we make money#when queers stop being profitable to netflix queer indie artists will still make thought provoking takes on queerness
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she's the top sniper in the entire DCB, you are nothing to her but just another target 🌃 she will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this earth, mark my fucking worms
#doodles#character reference#art#artists on tumblr#character design#cyberpunk#assassin#mercenary#omisa patel#static sky#originally i liked the contrast of the legs being white but thinking about it it clashes with her stealthy and darker palette#it also draws too much attention to her legs from a value standpoint and thats something i try to avoid#i also got rid of the weird capelet + coat combo so now its just one big coat and a small scarf which i like so much better#and yes this is the funny zip up coat i drew her in before wbhjdfhbjg thats just. part of her character design now#its comfy ok? its comfy and easy to hide in. and i bet it's thick so it has a lot of pockets
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i’m sure someone’s already thought of this but like tma hadestown au when… (ft. low budget doodles)
#i know realistically jon would be eurydice and martin would be orpheus just going off of personality#BUT. storyline wise it makes more sense for martin to be eurydice in the sense that her going to the underworld is—#like mart going to the lonely… (not to mention peter is literally hades. lol.)#btw the jmart lonelyeyes parallels make me sick and this makes it even worse#sigh. all of chant ii but them. :(#also all i’ve ever known and flowers are literally jmart and martin respectively like from a canon standpoint#ARGHHHH can you tell i have a lot of thoughts about this#no idea who the fates are for sure btw. my current thought is annabelle nikola and maybe helen?#this au man. makes me unwell. /pos#the magnus archives#tma#tma fanart#magpod#the magnus archives fanart#tma art#jonathan sims#the archivist tma#martin blackwood#jmart#lonelyeyes#elias bouchard#peter lukas#simon fairchild#teaholding#jonmartin#hadestown au#tma hadestown au#artists on tumblr
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I love how Fyodor's eyes are drawn. They convey his thoughts and who he is as a character so well. Like when he has that sinister smirk on his face, the empty eyes add volumes to that look and it sends shivers down your spine. Or when he's surprised by something, he doesn't stop it from showing, you can see it in the way his eyes widen in shock. They are drawn to show such emotion, even at the times when he's feeling nothing or when he's about to do some damage.
That's my TED Talk on this man's eyes, thank you and goodnight.
#bungou stray dogs#bsd#bsd fyodor#seriously tho like from an artist standpoint? its brilliant#it just suits him so well#eyes really are the window to the soul#even in characters who may or may not have a soul
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don’t let the superhero costumes fool you they’re just here to shoot people
#my art#hermitcraft#grian#goodtimeswithscar#hotguy#cuteguy#mcyt#desert duo#why is it every time i decide i’m going to Just Draw A Sketch i end up doing multiple full color illustrations#local artist actually draws background 1 dead 6000 injured#it’s kinda fun figuring out the balance between ‘practical archery knowledge’ and ‘superhero theatrics’ when designing these guys#grian’s costume prioritizes aesthetics over practicality/realism whereas scar’s is fairly reasonable from an archery standpoint#and i have no idea what grian’s costume looks like from the back#it’s what he would want#actually the thing i’m most proud of is cuteguy’s bow design#closely followed by that ‘don’t walk’ sign#you gotta admit that’s a really good sign#anyway today’s tiny detail that no one would ever notice in a million years#hotguy is using go-away-green arrows#which is funny for two reasons‚#also this isn’t even possible to see i dont think but the arrowheads are that triple-edged spiral blade banned by the geneva convention#it’s how he got all the scars#but the real question is did i make him hot enough
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If half alive has 1000 fans I am one of them. If half alive has 1 fan, I am that fan
#text#august rambles#this is brought to you by seeing someone's review for them. and saying they didn't like the ep because it was standard#and that now not yet was better but had a bunch of poor songs. some of them bad#they even said still feel wasn't good because it was appealing too much to 'teen angst'#anyway i couldn't read the rest i had to leave#it was too painful i like the music too much we viewed it from different standpoints ack#i see a lot of people saying half alive is knock off twenty one pilots and like i see what they're saying. they are similar but#why does that mean its a knock off. what if they are just similar. half alive is clearly doing they're own thing. they're not copying them#maybe. that is just what that band is good at doing! the same as twenty one pilots. just cuz twenty one pilots came first doesn't mean#they own the scene. (you can argue they're better at they're music but if you're gonna do that make sure you're comparing the early stuff)#anyway rant about this because. i really like half alive and just dsbkncjnvb you don't need to be a fan#you don't need to think they're awesome. you can have an opinion outside of mine#but please be nice. and remember. it's Your opinion it's not Truth. if you don't like the song. you don't like it#if you think the repetition is boring. its not for you. if the 'angst' is stupid. its not for you. if the song doesn't hold weight.#it's not for you. the artist wrote this. and worked with other people to publish it#clearly they cared and other people saw worth in it. and like!! the fact that they're not big name also means they Can't get away with like#stupid filler stuff. they don't have enough of a name they gotta impress#idk i care too much. i see things like this and im just. ugh. it feels pretentious#half alive
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our flag is. so prettyyyy <33
IKR the colors are so pretty together
#yeah yeah orange and blue are contrasting colors so ofc they look nice together but#then the added shades of purple and pink....#I said it looked super pretty on twitter once and I got hundreds of qrts getting mad at me#calling it ugly???#something I've noticed about people that as soon as they start disliking something it suddenly becomes super ugly#and this applies to. literally anything#if a person becomes the new villain of the week on the internet I will see a huge influx of people calling them ugly#which says a lot about their character#I've seen art made with the lesboy colors and they always look great#like from an artistic standpoint they DO follow color theory pretty well#lesboy#our lesboy experience#lesbian#asks
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Still working on queuing the last of the mad scientist set on OF and I know that a set is a personal win when there are parts of it that just make me go, "What the fuck, I look amazing here. I'm so hot???"
#Mad-Because-Horny Scientist#mad scientist set#i know this post sounds incredibly egotistical but also most of the time I'm barely treading water in a sea of self loathing#so it's a huge achievement for me to find ways feel good about myself#also the photos are just fun to look at and feel good from an artistic standpoint for me as well#I've been leaning more and more into weird/silly sets#and an almost burlesque-like set pacing#dunno if that makes sense but I'm not sure how else to describe it#just letting myself be more indulgent in how many photos i actually post in a set and letting the horniness build up at a much slower pacing
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im having so many thoughts about mindflayer variations. why havent i seen any midnflayer variations
#i've seen swordsmachine variations fly around here and there#but the mindflayers also built their own bodies. or at the very least weren't created with them#if the terminal entry is correct#yea most. if not all mindflayers would have some type of human body. but body types aside can you imagine the amount of#designs you can get from that alone#bodies with doll joints. hard plastic. soft silicone. transparent like those old electronics where you can see the wires#fully robotic. scraphead style mindflayer that still keeps the humanoid form#yeah i know the rerminal entry only mentions plastic bodies. but from a in-universe standpoint. if the mindflayers built it themselves then#the cant /all/ have the same materials#also i just love species variations :3c#mindflayer#ultrakill#mindflayer ultrakill#ramblings#edit: this post is old but i feel the need to clarify that i mean something in the style of the pokemon variation charts#i have in fact seen people's different designs for mindflayers. what i mean is like. a collection of different in-universe designs#instead of an artist's specific way of drawing them
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project moon sucks now and I really don't think there's anyway to pull up from that nosedive at this point but library of ruina will have an eternal deathgrip on me.
which is the big reason I'm doing my no commentary run on youtube, though its probably not the only one, I want to do my own. Both as a sense of closure but also so I have a resource I made myself that I can direct my friends to who can't play the game or don't want to acquire the game in the first place.
.... I maybe should post it to tumblr I guess? idk I feel like most of the people who follow me and are interested in library of ruina either played the game, will play the game, or are in the discords where I already posted the link to the playlist.
where was I going with this. oh right. angela. they could never make me hate her. clap for her right now.
god I wish pm hadn't turned out like this. we're probably not getting distortion detective continuation and even if we did it would still be tainted just like limbus is...
#three distinct siege modes#and maybe once I finish the game I can record the keter only challenge run that mimic talked about#it'd be a bit artificial to go back and do it but I feel like restricting myself to only pages from that tier would work#failing that I can just make an additional save file and juggle them lmao#doing literally the entire game without EGO pages is just fucking suffering though gfhfgshjfg but it'd be neat too#iirc velmori is finding work again so I'm glad for her#its so disgustingly fucked up what happened with her employment#I'm glad I have wonderlab saved because I would be so sad if I couldn't read it even if from an ethical standpoint-#-I'm glad the artist could get it pulled
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now. i love and appreciate all mxtx fanartists very much. y’all make some gorgeous stuff. but i swear if i see ONE more art piece of an ANCIENT CHINESE CHARACTER with caucasian eye sockets i may lose it !!! look sometimes we DO have tall nose bridges ! usually we have pretty flat nose bridges but they can be tall! BUT DAMMIT WE HAVE NO EYE HOLLOWS NOT REALLY. that’s why i can’t do a cut crease eye look— i don’t have a cut crease !! i am pleading— keep the space between the eyebrows and the eyelids flat if you want to make your chinese character look chinese.
#idk if this is totally accurate from an artist standpoint i don’t draw but im sick of seeing our ethnic features erased ://#it’s not that serious a problem honestly#but if lwj and wwx look like a white european couple there is an issue !!#asians are more than black hair and pale skin guys please#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#the untamed#chen qing ling#cql#mdzs art#the untamed art#fanart#artists on tumblr#wei wuxian#jiang cheng#lan wangji#mxtx fanart#mxtx#mxtx tgcf#mxtx mdzs#mxtx svsss#mxtx novels#tgcf#svsss#shoutout to yutaan and sugar_shoal for drawing awesome art that i think hits on chinese features really well !!
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What is happening on Twitter?
‘likes’ are automatically private now for everyone, with no option to toggle that, and from MY understanding if you can’t see what other people are liking it makes it that much harder for peoples art to get attention
it’s a mess on top of a pile of garbage over there 😞
#mailbox#i understand why ppl would want it private but like bookmarks also exist#idk ive discovered a lot of my fav artists through other ppl so#kinda sucks from a ‘networking’ standpoint
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yknow as a kpop fan i sometimes stare at the amount of album variations people complain about in western music and laugh because it'll never be as hyper consumeristic as the vultures that are kpop companies
#yes i do think the amount of ttpd albums are a bit much#but ive seen masses of kpop albums in the trash because people only bought them for pocas or to get to do a fancall#i would honestly rather multiple versions with different bonus tracks because at least the people buying it are likely to use it#instead of the multiple versions that are functionally fucking useless from a music standpoint l#and idk i do think western artists are doing too much i just#it seems so.... nothing#compared to how frustrating kpop companies arr
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sigghh. new psg you could have been so awesome to me if you just fucking did right by garterbelt.
#CAN THEY NOTT BE RACIST. FOR FIVEE MINUTES. YOU'VE HAD 14 YEARS TO REMEDY THAT SHIT.#and i'll bet they aren't gonna fix the racist charicatures that leak into his characterisation either. guhhh.#like there is literally no fucking pro to keeping the old design people don't like it it's HARDER TO ANIMATE. CAUSE OF THE EXTRA FUCKASS#COLOURS YOU ADDING TO HIS FACE. JUST FIX HIS NOSE/MOUTH AND TEXTURE HIS HAIR A BIT IT'S NOT THAT HAAARDD#just annoying 2 me. probably not gonna watch it then as one of my conditions was they have 2 do garterbelt better. whatever.#i dont GET IT. i dont underSTAND. horrid decision from a marketability artistic moral and practicality standpoint man fml.
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realizing its almost been 6 months since top surgery:)
#frank.txt#despite all the complications i had w healing im rlly happy w how my chest looks:)#ALTHOUGH. ONE BIG COMPLAINT#i used to use my bras as an extra pocket for my phone or lighter or whatever. but now i dont wear bras and therefore have no extra pocket#:( u win some u lose some :(#anyway all shirts look awesome on me now AND i can wear t shirts w funny text or image ans ppl wont feel awkward reading it:)#also the scars r fading rlly well! they almost blend in w my skin completely! (keyword almost. theyr still visible atp)#the way the scars r shaped is interesting bc theyre like a U shape. but bc of that when i inevitably build my pectoral muscles#the scars should blend into the shadow caused by thr muscle. i also dont have a Completrly flat chest bc im fat:0#tbh my surgeon did rlly well . i have a lot of problems with him bc hes kind of a dick but from like. idk an artistic standpoint hes good#but the doctor standpoint hes Uhm. well i lost a nipple and had severe infection due to denied antibiotics and lack of aftercare#BUT. the lost nipple isnt visible and it looks normal now somehow AND. i didn't die from the infection so. I mean#i just had to spend christmas with a fever of 103 LMAO#HONESTLY THO i would do it again EVEN if i knew i would go thru hell bc this surgery fuckn saved my life holy shit#i didnt realize just how much i dissociated from my own body bc of dysphoria. now i feel more in touch with it and happy!:)#also now i can Eventually get that chest tattoo i wanted for like 7 years lmao#erm yippee:)
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Dude it is so fucking dire. I have screenshots of them but like. God. Gone. All because I was fucking stupid and didn't 100% foolproof it. I should have saved them to my switch like immediately after starting over like you can fucking do that. You don't have to wait until postgame or until you need to fill a story role. You can download miis directly from the main menu and just have them in storage. I should have fucking Done That. I was already imagining how funny it would be to have both sets. They're gone now. Because I was fucking stupid about it
#like it is so serious actually i'm never gonna fucking recover from this#all because i was too self-conscious of my fucking work to put out my key and like. maybe someone would have had it.#they may have still had a chance. at existing Somewhere. on somebody's game.#but i fucked that up irrecoverably. this is so fucking bad#like what if i tried recreating them from scratch like miserable little frankensteins. what if i just fucking died.#i'm literally like. i can't fucking bear it. all because of ONE stupid mistake. i was pulling from my old file literally yesterday#ohhhh my fucking god. keys should be like. save file specific. why do they work like that.#sorry i'm just not gonna fucking recover. i severely underestimated just how important they were to me#even if i didn't like them anymore from an artistic standpoint. like. i still worked so hard on those.#god
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