#makes a statement I guess

[fruggin-bitch]

you’re blog title seems very ,, ummmm , like calm down yk .why are you screaming at me i know what your name is tehe

Just gotta make sure you know who I am and you can hear me :)

[bixels]

tarpit site.

[juliastartoons]

The Fruit Bowl from The Public University Art Club! @shencomix

[shelleysmary]

gotta laugh at everyone who has ever said that "~unLiKE tHe pEtEr jACkSoN fILmS~ the trop people don't care about tolkien, don't care about middle-earth, it's a soulless adaptation for the money just because amazon is behind it" because (and i say this while also saying fuck amazon, fuck jeff bezos. it goes without saying - two things can be true at the same time, i can't believe it bears repeating)

how do you think films and television get made?? hate to break it to you, but it's all for the money. new line cinema didn't say "we love tolkien, pj, let's do this for free!" they were literally looking for a franchise hit when they decided to take the films over from miramax - which is exactly what every studio and their mom is trying to do now!!! it's movie business, baby! to say the people behind trop - the actors, the casting directors, the production designers, the vfx artists, the art directors, the armorers, the costume designers, the set decorators, the makeup artists, the ADs, the carpenters, painters, prop-makers, steelworkers, laborers, animal handlers, sound editors, miniature builders, stuntpeople, craftspeople, movement and dialect coaches, trainers, lighting techs, jewelers, etc. - don't care about the story they're telling???? is a wild reach. obviously they work for the showrunners who work for amazon who care the most about making a profit, but so did peter jackson and new line!! wanting your project to be financially and critically successful is not an inherently evil thing, come on guys, are you still buying into the starving artist fallacy 😭

there are tons of little nods to the silmarillion and other parts of the legendarium in the rings of power. yes, there are also changes and goofs, but lotr and the hobbit film trilogies also had their fair share of changes and goofs. i just think that "these people didn't read the books/this is just a money grab/pj & co. cared about the source material while these losers clearly don't" are tired arguments used to justify subjective opinions, not to mention the way it reeks of revisionist history considering the way tolkien purists initially took great issue with deviations made in lotr and especially the hobbit.

it's almost like...the most hated tolkien adaptation is ever the current one.

[mewguca]

I don't feel very well

I feel upset and confused and disappointed

and kind of scared for the future... I don't like when people suffer. i dont want more suffering to happen in this community

I'm still going to try to finish my batch of emote redraws, I think... I only have one more to get done.

I'm trying to distract myself, but it's difficult... I feel like I finally stopped thinking about it entirely the other day and now I can't stop thinking about it again

Please don't harass others, for any reason. it never helps anybody. (i don't think yelling at people on anon is going to do any good either; it's not particularly productive. you should think very carefully about what you say to people and what good you believe it will accomplish.)

and please all be more critical of information you come across in the future... it can help avoid this sort of thing repeating

[worldwright]

"I always wanted my friends to call me Gerry."

He never stayed in one place growing up. He could never bring himself to stay in the surface world. He stayed with Gertrude, as long as he could, but even that was lonely and dangerous and terrifying. And he never trusted her. He never trusted his mother. He never knew his father. He never had anyone he could rely on.

The last person he would ever speak to... and he finally decided that he'd found a friend.

Just... rest.

[hedgehog-moss]

The way Marine Le Pen cynically and relentlessly exploits every issue makes me want to throw up. She's all over this one, happy for the opportunity to side with her fellow far-right piece of shit politicians in Israel under the guise of caring about Jewish people, and denouncing the left for 'supporting Hamas'—which, yes, 1 far-left party made an inexcusable statement in that regard and it's not like there isn't antisemitism on the left, but still it boggles the mind to have Marine Le Pen smugly posturing as a moral authority on the matter, "these leftist hypocrites don't care if Jews die, unlike me and my fascist party funded by my Holocaust denialist father who speaks fondly of the Gestapo" CLOWN WORLD

[allgremlinart]

I feel like it should be said that it doesn't escape me how weird it is to see serious fundraising and resources on a blog where I mainly post fandom and fanart and oftentimes my personal erotic artwork and writing.

I'm not really making a moral statement about this, though - I had considered making all of my posts or reblogs related to Palestinian resources from my personal - more serious and less explicit - blog, or even creating a new blog altogether simply for signal boosting, but I realized that either of those choices wouldn't get nearly as much traction as they would when put on my more popular fandom blog.

Maybe it would be more respectful, or it would make more sense, or there would be less wires crossing, but if I'm motivated based purely off of how much mutual aid I can push... this blog is my best option. I think there is also something to be said about having people follow me for one thing or another, and using that to put resources in front of them that they wouldn't seek out otherwise (sneaking it in there, almost.)

So like I don't plan on stopping, but I feel like it would be negligent if I didn't say no, no, I know its strange, or at least feels strange, or gives a sense of flippancy, sometimes, or feels inappropriate. It's just that any sense of inappropriateness is outweighed by material good that I think (hope) can come from it. Does that make sense? I hope I've explained myself well.

[decodium]

Artist's Statement (AKA Just Because I Like Characters That Make Your White Guilt Flare Up Does Not Mean I'm Less Black)

[autumn-may]

being a kh mobile fan is so funny because all the kh content i see is going off about motifs and parallels and the development within both the light/dark and interpersonal connection themes and dissecting how it affects the other events within the story… and then i go to the kh main tag and its ‘Top ten reasons sora and riku should make out on kairis grave (and this will make kairi a better character)’

[dreammeiser]

Wkkakakwkaksmw It makes me sooo happy seeing the loads of positive support for DreamAlomg from fellow puppet lovers and cute-turned honor lovers!

Apologies if you’ve still getting any comparisons to Welcome Home due to the blow-up in followers.

I'm still in shock that people like this at all. :'o0 I'm really grateful that people enjoy my art, and grateful to the people that have been really kind and gentle with it and me.

At this point, I don't really care anymore if people compare. I can show my sources, talk about the lore and characters, where I've worked, even leave some of my old art for DAWM and old puppet/muppet characters as much as I can and people will still make assumptions.

So it's easier to just stop caring what they think, especially if it's an ill-informed opinion, especially if they're doing it to be hateful. I can't control how people behave, but I sure can block them if they're being disrespectful/abusive.

[onebizarrekai]

I've been going back and forth trying to decide whether I want to make the old ibvs oneshots be available on ao3 but every time I look at them I go into a state of shock at how… absolutely teenager they are

also this

[cementcornfield]

Geno with the Caitlin Clark gear 🫡🏀

[majicmarker]

just ran the numbers and i am very much strapped for cash and will be for the foreseeable future (barring some miraculous sudden windfall, which, not hedging my bets on that, so—)

with the new year ominously around the corner, i'm offering tarot readings for some insight into your year ahead:

$20 for a two-card check-in (want vs. need)

$45 for a basic four-card spread (the issue at hand + past/present/future influences and guidance)

$60 for an issue-specific spread (love, career, dream interpretation if you're into that, etc.)

$100 for the celtic cross (if you INSIST)

also!:

editing services (rate dependent on the project—DM me if you have anything in the works, and we can chat more. my experience ranges from résumés to fiction manuscripts in any and all stages of development. if you're indie publishing, i can also provide back cover text, taglines, and optimized search keywords for amazon.)

or, if you feel like just Giving Me Money but you want to give less than the aforementioned rates, here's my ko-fi.

(you can also buy my books! that money just takes a hot minute to actually get to me, so as much as my creative integrity would prefer this route... yk how it is.)

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the doctor isnt neurodivergent or autistic or adhd or nonbinary or genderqueer or asexual. what the doctor is, is Not From Here

[stellaluna33]

Thinking about that Birkin Bag again, and how Rory seemed actually kind of freaked out by the way everyone was fawning over it when she and Logan were out... And I think a big part of that is because she's used to gifts from a boyfriend being a kind of secret message between lovers that wouldn't mean anything to anyone else. But the Birkin Bag isn't just between Logan and her. It's to send a message to everyone ELSE too. It's not a sweet secret between the two of them, it's a Public Statement. Just like Logan's proposal was a Public Statement (and she didn't like that either).