#catti project

[fisheito]

(3) remaining

[ashipiko]

THIS CHALLENGE WAS LIKE WAYYYY TOO FUN. TBH

YOU COULD NEVER GUESS MY TYPE IN FAVES. HAHA. HA. ha 😔

[boxdstars]

the new fifth year 🪄

for @traceyc-uk

i love this funky little dude, tracey’s art is so killer and their comics especially are FIRE — seriously the fandom is so lucky to have you

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #1

Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next wave

[tofixtheshadows]

Do you think Kabru looks like his mother? Do you think he ever grows his hair out and sees her clearly in his face?

Do you think Marcille ever looks into the mirror, on the days where she pulls her hair back simply, the way her dad did, and sees her Papa?

[art-of-max]

POV: you and the ghouls are having a slumber party, but two of them have been playing 7 Minutes In Heaven for awhile now.

Some Unlucky Wishes for V-Day!

Here's a better look at Gigi and Catty by themselves, without the back- or foreground:

[lilleputtu]

We're heading down the forest path for the next household this round. Elena Thistleroot, her plantsim son Aspen, as well as Lilith Pleasant and Miranda Capp are living in the patched up ruins of the Abandoned Keep.

No family trees this times. You can find the relevant ones here and here.

[evildilf2]

Is Taylor Swift's backwards harness nonsexual kink? Do you think the world could Swiftify (<- word to describe Swiftie normie-fication) kink?

That fashion disaster was an exercise in public humiliation fetishism

[hypodermicfroggy]

The fact that my mother is watching yet ANOTHER Yellowstone marathon makes me wish for the sweet release of death the show to end once and for fucking all just so that Wes Bentley can find new work that isn't this shitshow.

I've watched some of the shittiest of shitty indie movies for that man, I watched the shit he made when he was still hooked on heroin and actually stoned on camera, I watched the absolutely DOGSHIT pre-MCU adaptions of fucking Jonah Hex and Ghost Rider out of devotion to that man, but god, I'm not strong enough for this.

[florallylly]

i know it's never really established exactly how rich the harrington family is, but i pray every single day that they are real housewives rich.

[dubioushonour]

Whenever Project Sekai inevitably adds a new group when the other characters start graduating, I can't decide if I would want the new group to be comprised of 3 guys and 1 girl, or 3 girls and 1 guy.

Mostly I just haven't decided yet which would be funnier.

[fexarii]

I'm kinda nervous to do this but I'm gonna introduce one of my many au's, this is my oldest and most fleshed out one as it has a full (almost finished) story, gameplay mechanics, many many characters and several places to visit (if I ever were to make it a real game)

Introducing: the toyrune au!

This au mostly focusses on Catti as she explores a darkworld in an abandoned toy store! But more characters get introduced along the way, including a very familiar puppet ^_^

Now for some scribbles I made in mspaint, most of the OG concept art is very very old so I'm trying to redo it all

Catti's light- and darkworld design

Catti and Spamton's introduction and a few of the toy darkners!

Lightworld map of the toyworld

I hope to write down the full story together with all the dialogue, items, fights, etc eventually but even after a year, that's nowhere near done. . .

May upload all the refs of the protags later but for now, have this ^_^

[frodothefair]

Frodo defending his gender nonconforming, possibly trans daughter

Random denizen of Hobbiton: First he lets her run wild with the lads and dress in breeches, and how she is a member of the king's guard in a city of MEN? The name Baggins is certainly in the dust now, if it wasn't already. Frodo: *eyes suddenly cold, half-closed, and his voice excruciatingly, lividly polite* And pray enlighten me, Mrs. Chubb, what business of yours is my daughter's life and choices? And also, may I remind you that my son is an apprentice healer, and fairly soon Dr. Boffin will retire and Samwise-lad will take his place. Surely, you want him to continue to pay special attention to your rheumatism?

(So I imagine Middle Earth does not really have LGBTQ discourse and vocabulary like we do, and it might actually be hard to discern at first, not the least for Galadriel Baggins herself, whether she is simply gender nonconforming or actually trans. But I imagine she uses a male form of address and even male pronouns when she serves as a citadel guard, though not necessarily with her family.)

[britneyshakespeare]

i had a really weird interaction on youtube the other week. i commented on a short tv clip of someone gay doing something funny a few years ago and i said smth sweet and generic like “oh wow that’s cute i love him” and it became a top comment so sometimes i still get notifications of ppl liking or replying to it. 

but for some reason, you know how faceless people on the internet will say their most shallow and judgmental thoughts to a real person like it’s not the rudest thing you can do? yeah that happened. i had left the most impersonal, inoffensive comment in the world but someone responded to me “just admit you’re only entertained bc he’s obviously gay and you project your lack of a personality onto that”

and i was just like. honestly shocked. like what? you literally don’t know me at all. i didnt even say I WAS GAY in the comment or anything about being gay it was LITERALLY just a tv clip i thought was funny and cute. but this angry homophobe who clearly just hates to see queer ppl have fun and make jokes on the internet made it *my* problem...

and like first of all i don’t do that. i don’t just identify w everyone i come across who is queer and funny and root for them for that reason alone. the only person i project my lack of personality onto is dave davies... ok... chill out that’s not what i watch jeopardy for, that’s why i listen to the kinks

[prismadreams]

hey guys vote now on your phones should i make a sideblog where i exclusively post pictures of my dolls including but not limited to: - cute dressup - accessory painting - decapitation (it's for art i swear it's for art) - other less deranged sounding parts of the customization process - rambles on my opinions on various designs - me yelling excitedly whenever a pretty doll custom video comes out from a youtuber i like - making doll clothes

[ohnoitstbskyen]

I deleted the ask, but someone wrote one basically saying "why do you post reaction videos to Helluva Boss? Don't you know the show exploits its workers and they're overworked and get burned out?"

And, I mean, I love your energy, person who asked, definitely hold on to those values and speak up about this. But also, I am afraid I might have some bad news for you about literally the whole entire animation industry.

As near as I can make out from the sparse journalistic reporting that's been done on SpindleHorse -- and as a sidebar, please for the love of god read actual reporting about these things and not just callout posts and fandom discourse -- as near as I can make out, SpindleHorse as a studio is neither all that much better nor all that much worse than basically anywhere else in the industry on their level. It seems like it is (or was? Hazbin Hotel seems to be run differently) a studio mostly run by contracting people on a project-by-project basis, which leads to a crapton of turnover, and a huge need for organizing and onboarding, which according to the reporting I have read, the producers and freelancers have struggled to balance and manage properly, which has negatively impacted a number of the workers.

Top that with the usual catty, clique-based backbiting, sniping and poorly managed conflict resolution that's just kinda endemic in creative environments mostly staffed by twentysomethings and stressed out freelancers, and you have the recipe for a workplace where a lot of people are going to have a great time and feel creatively fulfilled, and a lot of people are going to come away feeling justifiably burnt the fuck out and exploited.

All of this is... not especially unusual for the animation industry, or indeed for any creative industry. Which is not to say that it is good, or that it should be allowed to be normal, or that it shouldn't be reported on and criticized (and please for the love of god support unionization efforts because that's the only thing that will actually address these kinds of systemic problems). It's just to say that if those kinds of issues are the line in the sand you draw where you refuse to engage with a studio's output...

Then, for starters, say goodbye to basically all of anime, because the Japanese animation industry is actively in a state of crisis trying to recruit new talent because its working conditions and pay are so astonishingly abysmal. And the horror stories that escape from that industry make the issues at SpindleHorse look like summer camp at times.

But you also have to say goodbye to a lot of American and European animation. Please do not imagine that Disney and its subcontractors, or that Nickelodeon or Warner Bros, are benevolent employers. They exploit their staff brutally and are currently trying to crush the labor value of animation with threats of generative AI being used to replace jobs. But those corporations also have extremely well-funded PR departments and the ability to silence employees with NDAs and threats of blackballing, so you don't get to hear as many of the horror stories as you might from a smaller independent studio that's less able to silence criticism by holding people's careers hostage.

All of this is to say that 1) it's valid and important to have criticism of both large and small-scale animation studios, and to keep the well-being and happiness of the workers higher in your priorities than the output of Products™.

And 2) if you're going to have a principle for what kinds of problems make a studio's output morally untouchable for you, and what kinds of problems you think should make a studio's output untouchable to other people, you do need to apply that principle consistently to the entire industry, and not just to the independent animation studio that happens to be surrounded by the internet's most inflammatory fandom discourse.

If you don't apply that principle consistently, maybe don't send reproachful messages to strangers scolding them for not living up to your standards, and even if you do apply that principle consistently, maybe still don't do that, because it's mostly quite annoying, and doesn't really do anything to support animation workers struggling for better working conditions.

The Animation Guild in the US is currently in the middle of a bargaining process with their industry, and they have a social media press kit as well as relevant talking points on their website which you can use to post in solidarity with the workers. If it comes to a full industry strike, consider donating to their strike funds to help them maintain pressure. Outside of the US, try and find out what (if any) local unions exist for animation workers, and maybe sign up to their mailing lists. They will let you know what kind of support they need from you.