#diaf

[cornercrescent]

palette drawing compilation RAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[inthewindtunnel]

Diaf

Nirgendwo

[mirrorbird]

never forget that the pivot to video was based on bad data that FB later ADMITTED was wrong!

our writers were laid off for nothing!! =D

Genuinely can’t stand the new favouritism towards video format. You want me to spend a whole two minutes listening to someone say out loud a paragraph I could read in 20 seconds?

(This is about tiktok. I hate tiktok.)

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

The crew of the exploratory ship, The Little Bird. The captain, Diaf, hired this crew to traverse the stars, learning more about both the worlds around them… and themselves.

Think sci-fi adventure but the characters all have the vibes of a bunch of scientists stuck in Antarctica.

Hán and Cereza are the only humans onboard, the majority of the crew being aliens. This is a trend that continues for the galaxy at large for entirely non-suspicious totally not plot-related reasons.

I’m still working on worldbuilding for a lot of these guys but a couple of the tags I made for them have a decent amount of stuff. I made this bc I finally got around to finalizing the design for most of the characters! There are… a few that I will probably rehash again, but there shouldn’t be any major changes. The old version of this post went outdated when I updated the designs, so this is pretty much just a redo of that with the rest of the crew.

[evendia]

Fuck you Disney, fuck you Lucasfilm, fuck you Star Wars.

Never again. Go crash and burn with your 50 year old bigoted and racist chucklefucks who are unable of moving on from their childhood nostalgia.

Fuck western TV. Fuck you all. I'm going back to my Asian dramas.

[septiseph]

he has finally finished reading his book but what should he do now????

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later...

these lines made me want to draw them sleeping & snoring together...

[riallasheng]

You know what I hate people like you who ignore and hate and downplay female characters! The only characters assholes like you like are the men, you never like the women! DIAF!!

...I think you might have sent this to the wrong person, anon?

I mean to go off the fandom I've been posting in the most recently, Lady Penelope (comics, novels, and tos) is, and always has been, my favorite character? Like most anyone who knows me knows I can and will go on for HOURS about how much I love that woman

If we're treating the Live Action shows as their own thing separate from the supermarionation, then Col. Lake from UFO is my favorite there? (and if we're combining puppet and live, she's tied with Scott for second place)

tosCS Destiny and Rhapsody are easily in my top 5 in CS Lady Ochre and lt Green in nCS are also easily in my top 5 n nCS

Kayo is my favorite TaG character, and Moffat, Casey, and O'Bannon are my favorite reoccurring (although Rigby is in there too) I even like tagPenny, although she (like Kayo) is so different from the TOS version that she's basically a new original character.

To go to older fandoms I'm no longer really active in (and this is down to me really disliking how Astruc handled the series and losing interest in it) Marinette is tied with Adrien for my favorite character in Miraculous, with Alya and Kagami also sharing a tie in second place?

In the fandom I've been in longer than Anderverse... which I'm still active in, even if not here on tumblr... Elita (g1 and the netflix series), Arcee (g1), Arcee (tfp), Strongarm, AIR RAZOR, Black Arachnia, Airachnid... there are a TON of female characters I adore who are consistently in my 'top five favs' for each show / iteration

I could go on, honestly.

Are there female characters I dislike? ones that I, even worse from a reading/watching perspective find boring?

Yup. Heck, even some I hate.

There are also male characters I dislike, am bored by, or hate.

[biosurvive]

WHY SO PRETTY CHRISTOPHER??? TO KISS MEN?? HOW GAY!!

[undeadhousewife]

The face I made when that punchline hit

[youturningintodust]

Expecting for a stone top to express sexuality in any other way is coercion, and is ultimately a form of sexual abuse on the level of force and rape. Pushing someone’s sexual boundaries to accept touch that they don’t want or can’t handle is rape.

Cis men are not the only people who can rape. Rape =/= straight cis PIV alone. If you are a woman or nb of any flavor and you have pushed, wheedled, whined, plead, tried to “seduce”, otherwise psychologically pressured a stone butch/stone top to do anything but their stone sexuality…. You are a sexual abuser at minimum, and a rapist at worst. (Whether or not said victim had the words, or was willing/felt safe enough to use them to describe you.)

Stone butches/stone tops do not owe you access to their bodies.

Period. End of. Any part of them. Even outside of the privates area. There are stones who keep all clothes on during sex. Let them be. You are not owed as much as a fucking uncovered kneecap. If you’re trusted, honor that trust.

If you even mentally eroticize the idea of stones doing non-stone sex acts for you, in your head, that is genuinely equal to a straight man fantasizing about forcibly “converting” a lesbian through rape/coercion/“seduction”/assault. Being a non-stone who wants stones to be anything other than what they naturally are, is a rapist fantasy, end of.

(And, yes, because some idiots always going to be pedantic and mention it: Yes, there are people who thought they were stone and weren’t — Or who have a complicated relationship with it where they live as stone most of the time, and once in a blue moon, make an exception (for their own pleasure). Yes — but that doesn’t ever make coercion and pressure acceptable. Those with complicated relationships with their own sexuality, who may lean stone without being that 24/7, deserve to have safe partners to be with — who never expect it and who will gently receive any rare, exceptional non-stone sex acts as a gift, and a surprise, knowing that it might never happen again. You cannot date these individuals, if your sexuality revolves around non-stone touch as a primary interest. You will never get what you want and only make someone else miserable.)

Leave stones the actual fuck alone and go find one of the other 99% of non-stone cis women and/or other afab people on this planet who DO enjoy non-stone touch and are happy to have the sex that you want. Stop forcing your predatory, lesbophobic behavior on us because you can’t and won’t respect or understand our limits and boundaries.

[justanisabelakinnie]

I was pretty bored yesterday and in a bitter mood and so I ended up spam-reblogging a shitload of anti-Madoka Magica posts(and no I’m not sorry, because no matter fucking what I will never stop hating on that trashfest of an anime), and obviously there’s nothing much really that I can say about it that hasn’t already been said by both me and other people in the past but lemme just say how FUCKED up it is…that grown men can look at a genre full of light and hope and female solidarity and empowerment for girls that teaches them that they can be whatever they want to be and that they should never stop believing in themselves and striving for greatness and go “nope, fuck that, instead of all of that happy fun girl power shit let’s write an edgy grimdark dystopia where being a girl with dreams and a desire to strive for greatness is a bad thing that can only end in suffering and punishment, where the survival of the universe and progress of humanity literally hinges on girls being tortured and killed en masse for wishing for something that would make them happy, where girls are universally portrayed as overemotional and impressionable and susceptible and weak and must slay each other in order to survive because they’ll go berserk and monstrous once their power inevitably gets the better of them, and where the only way to escape this ending is by dying and being erased from existence, because that’s the best girls can hope for, and as the icing on the sour cake, let’s aim it at an adult male audience so that they can watch girls suffer and perish and be psychologically broken for their own entertainment, all because they wanted something for themselves and had the gall and the selfishness to go after it.”

And instead of people seeing it for the sexist torture porn that it is it gets glowing reviews on every platform, people eat this shit up and say that this sleazy adult male-aimed show about barely adolescent girls suffering because they wanted something more for themselves is feminist actually, that actually all of the turmoil that the girls go through is a totally girl power metaphor for how girls suffer at the hands of patriarchy in the real world, and how the torture porn got subverted at the end when really all the end did was show the girls continuing to suffer because of their wishes but hey at least they’ll get the sweet release of death in the end, and how the all-male writing staff definitely meant for this to be the next feminist coming of Jesus despite the fact that they say they weren’t inspired by any Magical Girl works that came before them and were instead inspired by porn games…Madoka is the most progressive and revolutionary anime ever really, even more so than those insightful shows about Magical Girls that are actually aimed at girls and actually feature female empowerment and angst done well and not just for the sole purpose of letting men watch female characters suffer, those other shows are just stupid and shallow and bland and don’t know what they’re talking about, Madoka is where it’s at. Take it from me, a 35-year-old man who has never seen a single Magical Girl anime in my life except for Madoka Magica. If you don’t agree with me or if you dare to critique my soulless male gaze moebait, then you’re obviously just dumb and ignorant and don’t understand the deep philosophical nuances of this shoddy anime, I mean just look at Madoka’s mom! She’s the breadwinner of her family! Sure she’s not important to the plot on a whole and it’s not like Heartcatch Precure has done this character archetype better or anything but she’s proof that the writers are feminist icons who set out to empower women! Now watch as me and the rest of my Madoka-loving friends proceed to bully and harass the shit out of you for not sharing our vapid opinions until you either delete your account, change your tune and say you like Madoka now and were so wrong and stupid before, or stop talking about how much you hate Madoka entirely. And anyway teenage girls really ARE irrational, hysterical, and constantly on their cycles. Of course they’ll get taken advantage of for it! That’s not misogynistic to point out, that’s just the biotruth!

[synonym-pie]

gonna leave wet blatting farting noises on terf blogs before i block them

[indelibleevidence]

Evri: *emails* How did your courier do?

I literally saw him for the ten seconds it took to open the door, take the package from his hands, then close the door again. Really don't have an opinion, here. 🙄

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

Incredibly large and not very useful amount of dialogue from my funnies. I wanted to do this dialogue meme from cereovo in order to figure out the characters voices but uhhhhhh idk. I’m not really happy with the writing.

Rest of them under the cut.

[villainsidechick]

Me watching Eflop go bankrupt and losing all his businesses and assets over a teenage crybaby ego trip on flop Twitter.

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

[youturningintodust]

I’m sick of masculine/feminine dynamics of all kinds (lesbian, gay or even straight) being associated with creeps who somehow, always, always, even when outright saying they “don’t approve of that stuff”, always involve disgusting themes of childhood and parent/child dynamics.

Any use of the word “d*ddy/b*bygirl” together IS “d*d/l*g”, they are the same. Yes, calling your partner by any names or words used for children is in fact p*dophilia, even in fantasized/pseudop*dophilia form. Yes, you are getting off to the idea of being either a ch*ld abuser or the abuse victim. No, you do not get to escape the reality of that by manipulating logic until words no longer have meaning.

God, at this point I feel more “vanilla” than I ever have (as someone who literally isn’t), thanks to people like this. I may not be that, and may have some kinks, but… I think I’m just done for life with anything remotely related to b*d*s*m.

That scene and world do not represent all kinks or fantasies, or those who engage in them. They are a specific social scene (and writing genre based on it). One that engages with specific topics, in highly specific ways. Many of those ways are impossible to ethically condone. None of it is inherent to “just expressing one’s natural sexuality!” (Yes, you can do that outside of the b*d*s*m scene, and should use your full creativity to express that sexuality — without buying that entering this scene and accepting whatever they throw at you, is somehow your only option available for that expression of any kink out there.)

After years of hearing actual real-life abuse stories come out of that scene in actual RL, I stopped trusting any men (straight or gay) involved in it, but reserved my judgment when it came to lesbian relationships. And I gave more benefit of the doubt to people who mostly wrote about kink rather than going out and living it out. But after seeing the amount of people who are only doing the latter — only writing and strictly in a lesbian context — and they’re *still* nearly or just as bad as the other creeps… Yeah, I’m done. Honestly, now, at this point, I’m just never giving anyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to this stuff. Regardless of gender or orientation.

The dynamics are not “~power~ dynamics”. They’re abuse dynamics. They’re re-enacting abuse, and I don’t care on which side of the D/s they’re doing it from (or both); they at minimum need serious therapy to unpack whatever it is that has made them self-deluding enough to think this is healthy, for them or their partner/s. At maximum, well…

Taboos exist around literal ch*ld abuse in every culture worldwide for a good goddamn reason.

If you really feel the need to keep doing this shit for some genuinely trauma-based reason, unplug from wifi and put it into a text document where no one will see it but you. Talk it out in therapy or a support group, journal it out and find healing from what was done to you.

But of course, that’s not who’s doing this kind of writing, so that’s not what appeals to these types. They want to broadcast their pr*dator shit to the world, like the *xhibitionists they are. They want to feed into it and have it fed back into in a loop. Most are abusers or Lana Del Rey types who fetishize abuser-figures. The few actual trauma victims will absolutely just suffer from engaging with these creeps, in the end, and I hope they stop sooner rather than later.

Just stomach-churning. Reprehensible.

And to return to the first point: Masculine/feminine dynamics between two equal adults, who play with that energy and part of who they are, sexually, are not in any way inherently linked with this shit. Likewise, there are fem/fem or masc/masc couples who DO engage in it, even 24/7. I’m so tired of this utter TRASH being pushed on us as butches and femmes. I’m tired of other butches and femmes just passively accepting or embracing it.

I’m tired of our reputation ALREADY being ruined by the ugliest elements of cis/straight world, only to turn around and find this: other butches and femmes running headlong into some of the worst things out there, and demanding that the rest of us play along and pretend that it’s okay. I wish people like this would take responsibility for themselves.