#humans are so diverse

[evenmyhivemindisempty]

My controversial opinion about Hob Gadling is that I believe he’s absolutely the sort of guy that “puts things behind him”, and tries to wash his hands clean of the things he feels icky about. This is implied pretty well in the show, with him blithely moving from soldiering and robbery to printing, from slaving to… whatever it was he was doing in the 19th century instead. That being said, this is not at all the same as actively trying to atone, or even making a concerted effort to be a better person, and I really wish fandom could tell the difference!

[volcanocraft]

Your Gem as an unlabelled bi/gay non-op transman who uses she/her has overridden my previous headcanons and rewired my brain. Quite possibly the most correct take I've ever seen.

I really appreciate you saying this :’) she is so dear to me. I love your turiagirl headcanons as I think gem would definitely be mspec and I haven’t heard of the label before… it’s always fun finding out the new ways people are able to label complex gender attraction!

I’ve been thinking about bi gay gem for the past couple of days too. I just think she is able to represent a facet of masculinity I can relate to heavily because of her unconventional expression of her gender. Unlabelled because she doesn’t think too hard about it but able to identify herself in the flux that is masc while also using conventionally fem constructs because she just likes them … AOUHH thank you for making my day 💖

[taro-pdf]

I don't have a lot of the aro/ace experiences growing up. I was and am a creature of comfort, and things that made me uncomfortable I avoided; since my school was small, religious, and I had trusted adults, I never felt enough peer pressure to do stuff I didn't want.

I never realized I should have a crush. I only realized people actually had crushes in college.

I never realized sex was a thing people desired because it was discouraged. I only realized, again, in college.

I never realized how much kissing on screen really bothered me because I didn't continue watching shows that i didn't like. I only realized yesterday watching the bachelorette with my roommates.

... though I do remember crying when talking about my wedding night with my dad one time lol. (edit to add: assumed future wedding night)

[odekiisu]

Restock day

Inspired by this post by @icantspellthings & referenced off a couple doses of A positive at our blood bank lol. Was intending to include pink/purple Klingon blood as well but I ran out of space 😔

From left to right: Human, Cardassian, Ferengi, Vulcan (top one also noted as appropriate for Romulans), and Andorian.

[ignorant-rat-carcass]

Seriously, and I can’t stress this enough;

FUCK. THIS. SHIT.

[lolathepeacocklord]

goodness gracious lola speedpaint !!!!!!!!!! in the real !!!!! ive been on a real kick drawing lately (or at least have been trying to) and ive gghuyuughgughtguthgutghtugdhudhgjdhgsjdf become really autismed about these messed up creatures from tee eff ayyyyyy animated 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰im almost at season 2 gang im going to become even more grotesquely into these beasts very soon !!!!!! heart emoji !!!!!!

[reel-fear]

Genuinely so curious who Mike thinks is gonna be buying The Cage or the new DCTL GN bc with the way he tweets as far as he's concerned, it's not gonna be:

The queer people he has actively admitted he will never show any representation of in the games.

2. The POC he has actively fought against representing in his franchise. [Who he also mocked for thinking they would be represented in his franchise]

3. The Bendy fandom which has always been concerned with topics of diversity esp in the sense of queer people since its creation. Who he has responded to really poorly esp in regards to the GN.

4. The fans who critique him. [He blocked me for doing so lol]

5. His fans in general who he tweets about like this currently. [He's being vague about why people were mad at him or sent him 'nasty messages' because if you actually looked into why you'd see he was in the wrong. Either way, a very hateful way to speak abt ur own fanbase.]

Reminder while Mike is trash talking his fans he has always treated them rather poorly. The fans who won the fanart contest for Chapter 5 never got their posters actually in game due to it being rushed. Not only was chapter 5 a big slap to the face story wise, but it was literally so rushed he couldn't be bothered to add in the art his fans gave him for his game FOR FREE. [Meatly blames this on a crazy timeline, reminder him and Mike are the literal ceos of this company. The proposal of future updates here is also pretty cruel considering Mike nowadays happily admits he corrupted Chapter 5's source code and therefore literally can't update it At All currently. Because he is a moron]

At least they got to be in Boris and the dark survival, and by that I mean that was the Only game they got to be in so far, isn't that just treating your fans like you love them? Shoving their hard work into a spin off game almost nobody has played or addresses much. [Hell, who knows if with the Lone Wolf rebrand they'll even stay there. In which case they'll be in None of the games, only in the credits of BATIM]

6. The Bendy fans who just generally disagree with him on stuff. Like the new ink demon design where there is literally a public poll showing people generally prefer the old one.

7. The Bendy fans who can see he is actively lying to them. To their fucking faces.

He says this has always been the case, but screenshots and links to tweets regarding the books being canon prove it was not. Does he really think bendy fans are stupid or something? [Unless he's admitting here he lied to Kress when he told her the books were canon which sounds worse!]

8. Anyone who doesn't like the idea of giving money to a guy who laid off tons of employees then afterwards thought it was a great idea to express his anti-union views! Also brag about how good of an employer he was, according to his employees, he was not!

So in summary; Mike is an awful person who has not learned anything from the awful things he did. I will not be purchasing The Cage because, combined with this and his absolute refusal to take any kind of critique or see any differing interpretation of his franchise, I have no reason to think my problems with the franchise will ever be addressed or fixed. I probably will pirate The Cage along with any future Bendy Products [Including the movie] and will do my best to avoid giving it any kind of monetary support. Unless this changes any time soon, I can't see myself making anymore positive Bendy posts soon.

Mike has just managed to make it so hard to speak positively or optimistically of this franchise when he's so willing to broadcast how little he cares about it or its fans. I'm at the point where I refuse to pull any of my punches with my problems with it. What's the point of trying to play nice with my critique when either way the people creating it don't care?

So with this post, I want to invite anyone who feels similarly about the franchise to tell me, make a post or send an ask talking about how all of this makes you feel. It may not change how things are, but genuinely seeing other people share my feelings of anger makes me feel better. It feels nice to see when other people share our same concerns and worries. I'd also love to know if anyone else thinks they'll be avoiding purchasing Bendy products over this.

I'm not forcing anyone to participate in it nor trying to say anyone who doesn't supports mike but genuinely maybe if we can collectively decide to boycott things like the movie, graphic novel and The Cage... It might at least make the bendy devs acknowledge how much they have destroyed their own fandom's faith and trust in them.

The way Mike tweets about his actions like he had no control over why people were mad at him at least proves to me he takes NONE of it back nor regrets it. If you didn't know about his actions and only went off his tweets, you would be led to believe Mike has been needlessly picked apart by fans over things he couldn't control [or in his own words, had his words twisted and taken out of context]. That is not how you speak about your actions if you have actually learned better from them.

anyway, that has been my bendy dev callout post. This is an open invitation to anyone feeling similarly upset about the way the franchise is going to talk about it. It's genuinely nice to see how people feel about this and the more we talk about the more it's likely the bendy devs are forced to address our concerns. I don't think they will but hey, that's why I'm not gonna support them with my money anymore nor am I gonna be nice to them in any content I make critiquing Bendy. I mean I'm also basically making this post just in case anyone asks me Why I feel this way towards to bendy devs/as a way to respond to anyone who thinks I am too harsh in my critique in the future.

As always, it seems the best part of Bendy isn't actually anything about canon but about what the fan's are creating with the ideas Bendy failed to do anything interesting with.

Also the books, the books slap.

[bluejay-makes]

Drow kiddos growing up in different cities

[littlehatmouse]

i finished this in the last 20 minutes of lesbian visibility week after not drawing at all LETS GO

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vengv'la is a Vulcan Engineer! [Patreon | Commissions]

[littlefankingdom]

Back to my rant about Jason Blood and how DC is butchering history.

I already explained how Jason was from the 5th or 6th century because Merlin is from that time period, and how that means he has another culture than the one portrayed in DC medias. (here)

Well, today, I thought "Wait, Jason is a Greek name. Is it possible for a Celt from the 5th century to wear that name?". Well, I did a bit of research and, low and behold, the name Jason wasn't used in Great Britain before the PROTESTANT REFORMATION, so Renaissance. Which could explains why DC says he is from the Renaissance, but no way they know that. We are talking about the people that barely let Diana have some Ancient Greek culture (she should grieve differently from her colleagues and we have A TON of knowledge on how Ancient Greeks grieved). And I don't think the letter "J" exists in the Welsh alphabet of the time, and the Legend of Arthur is a Welsh myth...

Anyway, Jason doesn't make it. We need an old Welsh name for our guy.

[deaderthandoubledead]

Not happy with the colours but my re-work of Reya Matlemorn from the Descend into Avernus campaign I'm DMing. In my campaign, she used to serve under Zevlor and was sent on a solo mission when Elturel got dragged into the Hells. Since BG3 makes it appear that Zevlor was leading a purely tiefling squad, I made her a tiefling (and a paladin of Thorm, just like him).

[vee-lociraptor]

doodled this so fast at like two am because the idea wouldn’t get out of my head

[mxtxfanatic]

Author of the Week: Mu Su Li/木苏里

Books I've Read:

Copper Coins

First-Class Lawyer

Global Examination

Unseen Immortal of Three Hundred Years

Panguan

Read If You Like: Quite honestly? Anything. You want horror? Global Examination and Panguan. You want futuristic? First-Class Lawyer and Night. You want modern-day? Panguan. Want ancient setting? Unseen Immortal and Copper Coins. You want cultivation? Panguan, Unseen Immortal, and Copper Coins. Truly Mu Su Li is so versatile it's mindboggling. Even if you don't like a certain genre or setting, they will have written something that has been translated that will satisfy your cravings, as long as what you want is a romance about two men falling head over heels for each other (possibly many, many times). I can't even say that the main characters are exactly the same, they feel unique to their settings and in their relationships. Absolutely check this author out when you get the chance!

Avoid If You Don't Like: Honestly, the only thing I can think of that might be a turn-off is the amnesia trope. This author loves using memory loss/tampering as a plot-pusher, which may get repetitive for some, but it's always used in a unique way in each story so I don't mind. The only novel I've read so far that doesn't utilize that trope is First-Class Lawyer. But the stories, themselves, as so unique that if one doesn't match the vibe you want, you could easily pick up another that likely does. They are just that versatile. There are no downsides to trying this author out. Can't even say that common trigger content exists in their works outside of what you'd expect from the respective genre, like murder, mystery, and horror. If I had to say a negative, I'd just say that the worldbuilding in the futuristic settings are kinda not my thing (way too explanatory in a way that does not help me understand wtf is going on, but also I get confused easily by too-complex theoretical explanations), but that has never detracted from a story, so idk.

[seawitchkaraoke]

y'all have got to learn the difference between actively harmful malicious shit and imperfect allyship bc i am so tired of the people that actually try to do good getting torn down and yelled at for every even slight perceived misstep while the people who do not give a rat's ass get to just keep doing their thing bc oh well we don't expect them to know any better