#formerly bodies

[kaleidoru]

i'm feeling sad, so i redesigned an oc i never got to use from 2011

[rigormortisangel]

"ed recovery" influencers trying not to post body checks from their lowest weight for no fucking reason

[hellooo-one-and-all]

devastating: local podcast listener's hopes of maintaining normal facial expression throughout walk once again shattered by naddpod cast

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

fauci saying “vulnerable people will fall by the wayside” and that some will die but that’s ok because we’re not going to see the “tsunami of cases” we’ve seen before is so dehumanising. so babies with no immune system, elderly people, disabled people, and people without adequate access to healthcare can all die of covid. but it’s ok guys because actually they’re just falling to the wayside and everyone else will go back to normal and be fine (sarcasm).

my death or the deaths of my family or friends wouldn’t be us “falling by the wayside”, it would be us being failed by our government, healthcare systems, and communities who have refused to take coronavirus seriously despite mounting anecdotal and scientific evidence of the harm this virus does. fact that people can accept the deaths of vulnerable groups just because they want to eat in a restaurant or don’t want to wear a mask is horrifying

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"Real Ghosts of Formerly Imagined Bodies" is available to read here

[gamebunny-advance]

Doodle Dump: Misc. Edition

Time for misc. doodles~

Notes under the cut.

1: "Ikigusare Idols". Like many people, "Injection Girl" randomly appeared in my Youtube feed, and I was admittedly charmed by them. It's like they're from a bygone era, but they just put out another music video last month. Currently, my favorite song is "スーパーZ指定ガール". (Content warning for mass violence in the lyrics.)

2-4: "Clown Doll Redesign". So, since I've started doll customizing as a hobby, I tend to lurk on the Dolls and CustomDolls subreddits on the lookout for inspo and info. Not too long ago, someone posted asking for advice/critique on their doll ideas. So I sketched these (and some notes on the original design, which are not included here) as a response. In the end, I never did reply because I don't actually have a reddit account, and I thought it would be weird to make one solely to criticize someone, so I'm just posting them here.

My main critiques were that there wasn't a lot of contrast in their color choices and that the blue and red hair seemed random when the rest of the design was pink/green. So, my main goal was to increase the contrast between the pink and green, so the different patterns would stick out more and to unify the pallet a bit more. The skintones differ from the reference because the doll they said they were going to use was a G3 Frankie Stein, who has bluish skin and a prosthetic left leg, so I'm not really sure why their sketch uses the original green skin or why the silver leg is on the wrong side, but it is what it is.

The first 2 are straight pallet swaps, but the 3rd is based on a second design that the OP made. They originally asked for users to pick between the two. Most people said they preferred the blue and yellow design because it was more cohesive, but the OP replied that they really wanted to make the pink and green one work somehow, so that's why I focused on using that one as the base, but I still included a version with the alternate pallet and patterns.

Here's a link to the original thread since I'm kinda reposting their art by including it with sketch. Just maybe avoid linking back to me >_<;

5-8: "Music Junkie Soundwave". In a similar vein, there was another user on the subreddit that wanted opinions on a potential Transformers fashion doll line, citing a video that one of their friends made on the idea.

Now despite having a limited knowledge of Transformers, and I'm still pretty green to the fashion doll world, I wrote a whole-ass dissertation on the idea because magical girl/boy robot dolls are totally something I'd be into.

But, for a similar reason to the clown doll, I didn't want to make a reddit account just to critique someone (though I still have the original response in my drafts).

When I finished writing that response, I decided to sketch how I would go about the idea as it'd been proposed, and created this Soundwave doll idea. Admittedly, he's very inspired by Giacomo from Pokemon Scarlet/Violet (never played it, but I do like some of the character designs in it). I dunno if the overalls are a little dorky, but I couldn't think of another way to represent his chest-deck in a meaningful way.

9-10: "Kingsley and Mamuta". I tried to make some human? designs for them, but it's not going great. I really wanted Mamuta to still be monstrous, but designs like that aren't my strong-suit... Kingsley I'm just not satisfied with yet.

11: "OC Line-Up". Just a few OCs of mine. From left to right: Carol, The Prince Formerly Known As Frog, Shapeshifter, and Fizz.

12: "Rival". An idea for a rival to Kun3h0, ala Shadow the Hedgehog and Wario. I made another sketch recently that goes in a very different direction, but I kinda want to finish that so I haven't included it in this dump.

[dazzelmethat]

Long time no Bud. Wow the last time I made her a ref was 2018. I experimented some with her pallet. Unsure if I like the profile head but oh well, open mouthed anime inspired profile faces are notoriously hard for a reason.

Sigh. What am I going to do with her.. my writing conundrum workshopping in tags. My tag rant mentions plot related suicide and ableism (in relation to the zombie trope).

[rainyfestivalsweets]

I signed up for a 5k tomorrow.

Should I do one on my treadmill today or should I rest? I did a dumbell circuit and a short bike yesterday while watching a YouTube live.

The 2 days previous were longer, as I had a little more time than normal.

Today I need to get mom to the Dr. Pray for me.

[other-peoples-coats]

On the off chance there's any fellow victorians following me, reminder the state election's coming up, and you should go check your enrollment's up to date.

Early voting from the 14th, democracy sausage map here as ever (not a whole lot of points yet, for obvious reasons), and the election itself is on the 26th of november (I mean, obviously).

Also postal voting's open for enrollment as of today (2nd nov), though the website seems to be a bit janky atm so maybe try later in the week - ballot packs start being posted on the 14th; enrollment for postal votes closes the 23rd at 6pm.

[skrimshaw]

Love Nicholas Hoult in roles where he is hopelessly obsessed with garnering attention from One Guy

[havent-thought-of-a-name-lmao]

i think it's really fun and cool that my body doesn't really center my pain anywhere specific. i thought it was just my legs. it's not. i just always attributed it to sleeping wrong bc that's what EVERYONE attributed it to until my blood work.

my body will be like "your leg hurts. actually, your legs hurt. surprise actually it's your shoulder and back. secret third thing: both + your arm. nah jk arms, both of them. also your abdomen. and your hip—sike hips plural, idiot. actually your neck too. fuck you."

still thinking abt the body image group that's like "appreciate what your body does for you!" man fuck my body lmfao. what the fuck is this. i'm so fucking over it. stop telling me to love a body that's attacking itself. shut the fuck up. you don't fucking get it. i fucking hate it when able-bodied people specifically spout that shit to me.

[burinazar]

these days i do sometimes see people literally just parrot the western-machismo ideal of 'ewww, feminine men, gross everyone who likes men should want big manly men and if they don't they're wrongheaded. smh silly misguided people' while simultaneously, and here's the rub of it and the part that makes me feel like it's bizarro world, they've truly and genuinely convinced themselves this is a meaningfully anti-bigotry position of some kind. and that liking men who are soft or thin or feminine is an insufficiently-progressive low-key-bigoted position. because it's.... i don't know, inherently fetishizing, or something. fuck if i know. i think this is bizarro-world thinking to a comical degree

i speculate it's one of the many internet phenomena that result from people looking at what's popular in their circles of awareness and going 'well this must be the societally expected default and so the principled position is to advocate for whatever its alternative is (and surely the fact i personally prefer the alternative as a matter of taste is just a coincidence)'

and not realizing that..like.. even though their internet sphere has a lot of Lisa Simpsons reading their own personal fandom version of Non-threatening Boys Magazine the western world at large still definitely eschews non-traditional masculinity and expects everyone to favor manly men rather than willowy bishounen.

so you aren't actually fighting any sort of pressing Good Fight by getting mad that some people like or depict sad wet wimpy thin boys instead of all longing for a big beef-o muscle archetype, and you should inspect whether in fact the issue is just that you dislike that aesthetic/character type (or, in a fandom context, that specific character). which if so is fine and you can enjoy the kind of content you enjoy without making it a smug grandstand

[chronivore]

Doc Sasquatch. Formerly Doc Samson. Revived in the body of Alpha Flight's Sasquatch.

[ohthisisgonnasuck]

My BMI vs. alcohol consumption rate is so ridiculous, I wouldn't even mind doing it in a laboratory.

In multiple BAC calculations, I should be dead & I just blew a 0.2 on my friend's lil pocket breathy. (I'm fine, even the DD said so)

I KNOW THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING! But, medically speaking, could be interesting...?

[dullahandyke]

Man ik I'm preaching a point nobody rlly gives a shit about but like. You guys know that 'dont make fun of people you dislike for their physical characteristics' extends to neckbeards right? Right?