#different perspectives

[sapphire-sans]

Crow and DTIYS by @itsxroxannex

I have a really bad headache and my friend isn't listening to me, so this was an angry drawing (I do it a lot)

Original under the cut

I can't draw a pipe 😭🙏

[groundhogfancy]

Where did we go wrong?

[iqmmir]

Milgram is so funny because the more you like the character the more you make up a backstory for them so you can like them even more. The more you like the character the less of them you understand basically

[ikigai-thoughts]

The Spilled Orange Juice box. My take on peeling oranges and how the 20s feels like.

[barefootislandgypsea]

Oh the difference a change in perspective can make!!! It is the truest form of magick

[supremechancellorrex]

I think people need to accept they won't always get people to agree with them, no matter how passionate, forceful or insulting they become in their unrelenting attempts. It's just a fact of life. Sometimes a battle is a lost cause. You can either accept that or throw a tantrum over it.

[amandaoftherosemire]

Chris Evans, Mask Off

I was scrolling earlier when I came upon a post by someone who is feeling very betrayed by Chris Evans right now. The post was about how stupid they felt that Chris Evans was not the man he had pretended to be, that recent events had proven he was a PR fabrication and they felt like a fool for falling for it. I went looking for the source of this pain, trying to figure out what Evans had done to be denounced as a fraud and a liar. I admit, I was surprised when I figured out it was his recent marriage.

Now, I'm not linking back to the post or reblogging it because I'm not interested in calling anyone out or making them feel bad for feeling bad. If you're feeling betrayed by the news that Chris Evans married someone much younger than himself, I'm not going to assume it's simply because you're mad it wasn't you. I believe that plenty of people feel that the age gap between Chris Evans and Alba Baptista is problematic and indicative that he is not the woke king he purported to be. But I would like to offer a different perspective.

My parents had a twenty-two year age gap. When they met, my father was 48 and my mother was 26. Plenty of people looked askance at the age gap between them, wondered why in the hell either of them would want to be with the other. But they were madly in love and happily married until he died twenty years later. And she never remarried, said until the day she died that she just couldn't find anyone who could follow my dad. So age gaps don't weird me out unless one of the people in the relationship is clearly being exploited. For example, hanging around a teenager until she's legally old enough to date. Two adults meeting, falling in love, and getting married doesn't set me off even if there's what others think of as a problematic age gap. I've seen firsthand that it depends on the people in the relationship.

None of us in this fandom know him, or his new wife. None of us know what their dynamic is and we cannot infer that she is being exploited based solely on the fact that she is sixteen years his junior. (I promise you, despite the 22 year difference, my dad was not in charge of my mom.) We only know his public persona, the carefully polished version of himself that he shows to the world for marketing purposes. Chris Evans' persona is very appealing, but it is curated, as is everyone's, really. We all put the good stuff on social media and hope no one puts our bad stuff on theirs.

My point, I suppose, is that having any real opinion on Chris Evans' personal life is evidence of a parasocial relationship that you might want to reevaluate. There is no good to be found in valorizing celebrities; they're just screwed up humans like the rest of us and will always ultimately disappoint you. Also, just because we may find the actions and behaviors of others uncomfortable or problematic, doesn't mean they've actually done anything wrong. He's not a paragon and never has been. He's a celebrity living his life and unless he's hurting anyone, what he does is really none of our business.

[colorsoundoblivion]

FANE MASTER POST

(Original post about this permalink here)

[Status August 3rd 2023: I have roughly 39 pages in various states of design/completeness.]

{Contributors/contributions per category for current issue: Art (2), Photography (0), Interviews (1), Music (1), Print (0), Articles (0), Random (1), Letters (0)}

FANE is a digital & print zine with the intent to lift up artists of all kinds and expose them to new audiences. In every issue I hope to feature Musicians, Photographers, Illustrators, Poets, Painters, etc., along with life testimonials from marginalized peoples (are you a gender non conforming POC in the Crust Punk scene? I wanna know what that’s like. Are you transitioning in a rural area and want to share your experience? I want to help you do that. Do you love transgressive writing and like picking it apart? I wanna read those book reviews.). I am actively seeking out creatives in the LGBTQIA+ community who make the kinds of works that don’t get the attention or respect of mainstream queer culture. That said, FANE is all encompassing and we welcome submissions from peoples of all different walks of life (from CisHet to TransQueer, and everything before, in between, and after).

FANE is 100% volunteer. Everyone involved is donating their time and content. The digital version of the zine will be available completely free. The print version will be a lo-fi print-on-demand option priced to cover cost. Any kind of profits made or donations received will go towards building an online presence for the zine and further promoting the zine.

Examples of what we’re looking for:

Music Reviews, Live Show Reports, Photography, Painting, interviews (both interviewers and those willing to be interviewed), indie film makers, queer activists/artists, anything that defies convention, short stories, poetry, anyone willing to share honestly their struggles with mental health or other health issues, anyone into body modification, anyone with an unconventional body structure comfortable showing their body and discussing it, anyone willing to share terrifying personal experiences they’ve overcome, comedic works as prose or illustration, sex workers willing to share what their lives are like. Anything & anyone who deserves their “15 minutes” currently denied by surface culture. Contributions don’t have to be small, and you don’t have to do any page layout/framing (we can set up the pages from your content/files).

Examples of what we’re NOT looking for:

Pornography, edgelord shit for the sake of edgelord shit, right wing/conservative bullshit, Racists, animal cruelty, white nationalist propaganda, Nazi sympathizers, homophobes, transphobes, sexists, and other generally shitty human garbage. This doesn’t mean journalistic articles about such things can’t find inclusion, just that I don’t want to print the actual things themselves.

All submissions to FANE must be your original work or works you have the legal right to use. When submitting, you give FANE the right to reproduce your material in perpetuity within the context of zine print runs, website/blog postings, publishing collected editions of the zine, etc. (we’re not going to sell your works as prints or shirts or mugs or any kind of similar shenanigans). You are NOT giving us exclusive rights to anything, and your works will always be yours to do with as you wish outside of the zine.

As of writing this, the print edition will be black & white only (to keep price as low as possible, and honor xerox culture), but the digital edition will be full color. Please keep this in mind when choosing any visuals you may want to include. I think I can get the price down to $4 for b&w, but color would be $8 or $9 just in cost which I feel is a lot to ask (maybe I’m wrong). The goal here is simply to make it as accessible as possible.

Questions? Suggestions? Contributions? You can contact me here on tumblr or use FANEmag at gmail. I’m working on other communication methods as well, but I’m an Elder Millennial so please be patient with me :)

Feel free to reblog/spread far & wide.

Here are some visuals to give you an idea of what the overall “vibe” of the zine is. Nothing here is final… it’s all in progress/template/mock-up type stuff. I will update this post with changes, additions, etc.

I’m again tagging creatives at random. Don’t feel obligated to participate, but obviously I’d love to have ya:

@annaxmalina @ad-wills @blaue3 @conkerart @equinoxes @ericpenington @florian-93 @ghostribbons @jogoraz @justizpalast @rnarccus @rmtrl @st-nothing

Asked & Answered

Hey! What does the name FANE mean/stand for?

It’s a noun. It means a church or temple. I’m not a religious person, but the most spiritual I feel is when I’m submersed in the arts, hence the name choice. Major world religions aren’t exactly friendly to the LGBTQAI+ community, so the zine, in my head at least, is an alternate experience where people can find community, inspiration, and acceptance.

I’m a self deprecating sarcastic asshat too, so the fact it rhymes with “feign” as in “to feign interest in this boring zine” is absolutely intentional. As is the fact that it’s a four letter “F” word :)

[sklira]

Different Perspectives | Suis La Lune

Fingers cramping around my knees No expression; Staring at nothing All I see is darkness now And even my reflection is broken

[74ellebelle]

A different perspective of one of my mandalas.

[elegantdemoness]

Watch I Miss The Days on YouTube Music

[fluffylandshark]

I think you're missing the main point alkyrion

People would be way healthier if we had more ways to exercise that are fun by themselves. The discouragement of play post a certain age has a negative impact on not only psychological but also physical health.

Your second response hints imo toward an alienation from the idea that "I shouldn't need outside factors(in this case music) to enjoy physical exercise, maybe we should make more ways to exercise that are actually fun, so more people exercise and become/stay healthy in a time where more people than ever don't get enough exercise"

Exercise should double as enrichment but all of that has been stripped away to streamline the exercise process.

Sincerely,

Your fat friend who might not be quite as fat if most types of exercise weren't mindnumbingly, soulcrushingly boring.

No offense intended fren(genuine)

[lyrelyrebird]

See somewhere from a new perspective.

[antvnger]

Do you think everyone is an unreliable narrator to their own story? Saw something that said everyone's an unreliable narrator to their own story, because they're biased to their own point of view? I could be wrong, but couldn't that be skewed into making people think they shouldn't be listened to, even if something bad happens to them, because, they're not creditable at all?

Huh…that’s an interesting thought, Anon.

Okay, so like…technically you’re right that it could be skewed to consider listening to absolutely no one, but honestly? Where’s that gonna get you? Nowhere. Adopting that kind of mindset could be more damaging than actually helpful.

There’s a reason detectives interview multiple people and look for clues to piece together the truth, Anon. Most people will tell the truth as they see it. Just because one person gives a different story than someone else doesn’t mean they’re wrong and shouldn’t be listened to. It just means that they saw things from a different point of view.

In fact, interviewing multiple people gives a more accurate and detailed explanation of events. Someone may have seen an important detail, and someone else may have seen another important and completely different detail. It all helps build the full story.

So don’t think of people as unreliable narrators. Think of people as lots of different points of view with lots of stories and important information to tell. Thats how you learn stuff anyway, right?

[cynicalclassicist]

The things that Tumblr makes you think about! I never really thought of that about cats!

Cats are so soft and flexible that you look at them and think "I bet they're fundamentally so comfortable" like we expect being a cat to feel like holding a cat except it's all around you. But I reckon that internally, being a cat feels much like being a human. They don't know they're soft. And given that their preferred temperature is higher than ours, being a cat probably feels cold a lot of the time. Constantly looking for a box or a sink or something to curl up in so that your own body heat can make you comfortable.

[ink-drenched-cat]

Next chapter for Reweave the threads of fate is in production, will continue to be fluff and introduce the new perspectives of our palladium quartet.