#man artists on tumblr can just go fuck themselves

[dekuscalves]

everyday I grow closer to deleting this blog and just throwing shit on my main

[kozachenko]

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I FIGURED OUT A WAY TO FUCKING MAKE THE IMAGE SMALLER FOR POSTING ON TUMBLR WITHOUT SACRIFICING THE ACTUAL QUALITY OF THE IMAGE OH MY GOD

Ok so, what I did is go into the clip studio paint file, make a new file, copy and paste the group in the original file, merge everything, get rid of the extra stuff outside of the canvas, and then make the flattened image smaller and crop the canvas. Once you have that, export it and you're done. This helps maintain the actual quality of the image and also helps shrink the file size down to something actually postable (if anyone has a better way of doing this please tell me)

[Edit]: Ok I guess posting something to Tumblr just naturally compresses the image a bit more somehow because I'm looking at it now and zooming in too much makes it a bit blurry so I'm still gonna have to futz around with image quality for future pieces oof

Artist's Note:

I'm so glad I figured out a way to do this because I like working on a big canvas so I can get as much detail in as I possibly can. Only problems are how laggy it gets while drawing lol.

I had an idea for a drawing with Reimu and Zanmu because I really like thinking about their potential dynamic a lot. I also wanted an excuse to draw Zanmu again but in my normal rendering style because last time I drew her she was in my more sketchy style with generally flat colours so I wanted to draw her again. Speaking of, looking at the sketch for this is a jumpscare that I never enjoy seeing, like, man am I glad I didn't use those for my final piece.

Also about her spear. I was originally gonna make it like the ones she had in game, but it kinda threw off the whole piece. It was too big, too blue, and too flat, so I just went "fuck it" and gave her a different one instead. My headcanon justifying this is that the ones she uses in game are for danmaku battles whereas in any other fight she just uses a proper yari, or she still uses the yari and just makes it all glowy to power it up, maybe both lol. I pulled as much inspiration as I could from Sengoku era spears, and even put in some blue into the decorative part of the spear and also added a little skull to pay tribute to the original spear. Also, in my research I saw some art of izanami and izanagi making japan and saw that the yari izanagi has had a little decorative tassley thingy on it so I took some inspo from that and just made it one of Zanmu's tassles (Idk when that art was from or if the spear was still accurate to Sengoku period Japan but hey, probably the same reasons Eirin puts little bow ties on her arrows, it's just for personalization purposes).

I love rendering hair and clothes so much omg, while I like the super curly hair Zanmu, the longer, wavier hair suits her better for this drawing (I imagine it only does that like how Ghibli characters hair moves when they feel angry lol). I love making Zanmu's hair all messy and crazy, as well as giving her grey hairs, this woman has aged like a fine wine. Also, if the hem on the ends of her sleeves, top of her shirt, and her pants look like gold to you, that's because it is! It's fairly light so she's not collapsing under the weight, but it's gold! (I don't care how impractical it is, it's just cool). Not the undershirt though, it's made of a gold fabric. I had a cute idea with Reimu's hair to make it have a red shine to it. I also changed up Reimu's outfit so it isn't just a blob of red. I like it a lot when Reimu's skirt and outfit is segmented into different layers, so I wanted to incorporate that.

I tried to draw their hands differently as well, but IDK how noticeable that is. Also, I am super happy with how the side profiles for the two of them turned out, I used to struggle a lot with how to make the side profile of a character actually look like the character, so I'm really happy that they actually look like themselves.

Also added in the tree and rocks in the background as an homage to Zanmu's character art in Touhou 19, just because I was getting kinda stumped on what to do with the background lol.

In terms of a story idea with Reimu and Zanmu, idk why but the potential plotline of Zanmu wanting to ascend to godhood is so fascinating to me. Like, it is very possible that if she just convinced everyone she was a god (which would be very easy for her to do), she would become one in a heartbeat. Also, if she were to become a god, with her ability to return stuff to nothing, could she hypothetically get similar abilities to (Jojo Part 5 spoiler btw) GER? Like, idk about the death timeloop stuff, but the concept has been haunting me every night as I have been trying to find loopholes in GER's ability for a while now ( for no reason in particular). Back to the main topic, I imagine that she would probably tell Reimu that if she were to become a god she would take over the Hakurei shrine since the god there might as well be dead, and Reimu just says to her, "Over my dead body bitch." Like, I have no idea how to summarize their dynamic but like, it's the type of hero-villain dynamic where the phrase "We're not so different, you and I" would definitely be a phrase said during a fight. I think that if another IN style game were to release, Reimu and Zanmu would be in a team together. They could also have an interesting mentor and pupil kind of dynamic. Can you tell that Zanmu has been charging my mind rent these part few months? Like, instead of living in my head rent free, she kinda just uno reversed the whole situation and now she's the one charging me rent. What happens if I get evicted from my own brain? Actually, scratch that, I don't think I wanna know.

[angelofsmalldeaath]

work song — a.h.b.

a/n: full disclosure, i've posted this before on tumblr for something else. but i love this piece very much and i think it fits for him and this song so well 🤍 (it's gone under quite a few edits too, though)

cw: mentions of death but of well that's a given

the artist flicks through the feature. 

her name is printed in big letters on the cover of the monthly issue, her face—smiling and excited—next to the centrepiece of her latest art collection: cupid and psyche. 

the painting is stunning, a riot of bold colours and patterns, but at the centre is a man, his face hidden, his red-brown curls tousled. his body is relaxed, she thinks there's an air of carefreeness about him. 

and she'd know that for sure, after all that day is etched into her memory. 

when she feels a familiar pair of arms wrap around her, she smiles. 

“you're rather proud of the feature, aren't you?” his voice holds a little teasing note. she's stared at the feature for close to thirty minutes now, discreetly pinching herself in the same spot on her arm. (it sports a tiny, barely-there bruise now) 

“good,” he nuzzles his face into her neck, softly kissing the skin, “you should be. the exhibit was fucking gorgeous.”

“mmm, because you were the centrepiece?” fondly, she teases back, but the memory flashes in front of her eyes—the bustling art gallery, him in a corner, wearing a plain hoodie and jeans and a cap hiding half of his face, absolutely brimming with pride. 

she remembers the journalists asking about the man in all the paintings, the one whose face no one can see. “he's my muse,” she says every time, “this collection is dedicated to him.” 

“someone's going to connect the dots,” he walks around her, settling himself next to her on the settee. instantly, they rearrange themselves into a tangle—her legs on his lap, his arm around her, her head on his shoulders, his head on hers. “if they looked carefully, they'll make the connection.” 

“sweet boy, we have been each other's muse for years now and no one's found out. i don't think they're going to start now. besides,” she snorts, “i think the art world thinks i've made you up in my mind. won’t be the first time an artist's gone insane.”

he laughs a hearty laugh. “maybe you have. you always say i'm too good to be true.”

when she can't think of a retort, she sticks her tongue out, shrieking away as he smothers her in kisses. 

“seriously though, it's fun writing about you. singing about you. and i love seeing myself through your eyes.” suddenly he sounds all sober and serious. she thinks his voice even wavers slightly at the end. he blinks quickly though, and just like that the brightness in his eyes is gone. 

“love it when you write about me too,” she teases, “love being told i give you a toothache just from kissing you.”

“oi! i put my heart into that! it's a precious memory for me.”

“the memory of me taking care of you when you were burning up a fever? the memory of you demanding more kisses?”

he giggles like a teenager, hiding his face in her hair. it's fun to rile him up like this, so she continues, poking him in the ribs. “oh, oh, is it the memory of you passing the flu to me?” 

“we took care of each other though!” he traps both her hands in his so she won’t be able to poke him more. a second passes, and he can’t resist kissing the knuckles. “and so you deserve to have a song written about you. or a whole album works too i think.”

he pauses for a little then tuts. “actually, no. don't wanna tell anyone it's about you, that'll ruin the magic.”

“ruin the magic?” 

“of being your muse and having you as mine. a hundred years from now, when people would see your art as the artwork of this generation, and my music as the tune of our times—”

“tune of our times...”

“yeah, quit laughing at me!” he flicks her nose, kissing it right after. “so when my music becomes the tune of our times, i think people will see it then. they will make the connections.”

secretly, she loves the idea—that their love might transcend time and space, heaven and hell through their art. that decades from now their names might be whispered together, even though they aren’t just yet. 

“of course, we'll be buried together by then. same grave by the way, very romeo and juliet of us.”

“that's morbid!” she laughs sharply, “what will the epitaph say?”

he hums for a bit, thinking. his eyes flutter shut for a second or two, almost like he needs to focus on the half formed thought until it's a complete sentence. then he excitedly clears his throat and gently holds her face between his hands. 

“here lie the artist and the muse; inspiring each other in death as they did in life.”

[velvetvexations]

I think half of some of the issues some trans fems have with trans masc stuff is that some people find being seen as a woman to be traumatising and would rather deal with the trauma and danger of being seen as a failed man or faggot, like it's not appropriating anything it's that women find it traumatising to be seen as men and men find it traumatising to be seen as women like it's not appropriating for trans fems to find experiencing standard misogynistic sexism as affirming (which some women have found, even if they also find it upsetting or find upsetting at a later date)

a lot of it is very unhealthy though and directly leads to things like "yeah I'll believe I have power I don't have because it makes me feel more secure in my masculinity"

Velvet I hate to say it but yes they do in fact think that when men are sexually assaulted or beaten for any reason they are taking on a woman’s role in society. I’ve tried to pick apart how that narrative is just. Horrendously anti-feminist in my eyes - that’s what you think a woman’s role is/must be? holy fuck - but uh. Yeah. Yes.

TRFs will be like "my status as a woman objectively exists because Woman is an underclass in patriarchal society that I am classified under" and then you're like "so we should get minimize those classifications and drain them of meaning right" and then they suddenly go real quiet because they literally don't know how to conceptualize themselves except as someone who experiences misogyny

sad tragic terrible day: not one but two artists I had a lot of respect for decide to be a mask-off transandrophobe. sigh. at least I can always rely on you to have good takes and massive tits 🫡

my tits are huge and my love is boundless

why is it always the most insufferable people tilting at windmills. there are enough actual problems they could focus their self-righteousness on, but they'd rather imagine insane shit to attribute to other people.

scoring notes spreading malicious lies about other trans people on a dying social media site is more fun than dealing with the ongoing genocide targeting all of us

I get sooo pissed off by trfs going "listen to oppressed people about their oppression!" Because what they mean is "listen to us that this other group's oppression is Actually Our Oppression and them talking about their experiences and ppl listening to them talk about their experiences is Transmisogyny"

lmao literally

howdy velvet, here to leave a thought i had- 1 tumblr recommending me a transradfem blog in my "similar to those you follow" which was like. 3 fandom posts before it gets right into some of the nastiest overtly transandrophobic shit. and 1 tumblr stop recommending me people who dont think transmasc people are real people because i follow blogs who talk about....the opposite of that.... even if they reblog 1 (one) fandom gif. The main point is- JESUS christ do these people get really cruel about transmasc bodies like. immediately. its pivoting to calling us the c word and insulting dicks like we're all "smol beans" and its like....man. fuck is wrong with these people. why do they immediately feel entitled to shit on people's bodies?? it's just such an immediate kneejerk. total lack of consideration for other trans people's possible dysphoria and you know. just, not being a huge asshole.

I'm sorry, anon. No one should be treated like this.

You know something that really bother me is that people (who are not Ukrainian) act like basically 70 years of Ukrainian history is just a complete black hole. Was the Soviet era difficult? Of course. And bad at times? Of course. But it wasn’t literally nothing. The way these people discuss like Ukraine froze in 1930 and only started existing again in the 90s make me so uncomfortable. We weren’t “poor people starting entirely over 🥺 they are basically so far behind”. People still made things and made good memory and lived and loved and had family. It wasn’t literal misery all the time. And it really makes me uncomfortable when people act like it is, unless my whole family and bf’s family and everyone else is lying about good memories of their child hood or young adult hood I guess. It somehow is giving white savior despite most Ukrainians being white (well debatably, depending on how white you find Slavs but that is other conversation) especially when coming from Americans. Okay I guess you also must have nothing good going on ever because you are under bad government too right?

People are chronically unable to deal with other people as actual people, even when in sympathy.

[giafaeryprincess]

Walking in the snow hearing the birds congregate and flutter. This will be a slow steady walk to gas station to get energy drinks. I almost value my spacious solitude so much I wanna go further to the store where the drinks are a dollar less expensive. Bright white and children playing, coughing and making snowballs. It's good to be back in my bfs neighborhood. I love the trees. There's trees at my parents, more trees but they are extremely right wing there. It's intimidating. I'm green party if I had to choose.

Air like cooling mint on my cheeks. Like I said this gonna be a slow trek ~ especially cus I'm wearing sneakers and not my snow boots. Alternatively might my trek be speedier with more nimble feet? Heavy boots can slow one down. I enjoy my sneakers. My bf is so vehemently against me at times telling me to fuck off or leave. But I stay,wtf. I'm not forcing myself on him, not really. Because when I begin setting up my ride home to family I always ask again to confirm, "you want me gone right?" And then suddenly he says no or "do whatever you want" ...so I stay. You know it hurts my heart but gives me purpose. I have such romance in me and earthiness I feel I need a physical partner to touch and be close with. He's got me bad.

Aww I jus saw a lil teenager he was waiting for me to pass n he smiled at me. I looked up and there he was, smiling. I was like "oh! Hello" he said he likes my hoodie lol. It's a big azz fluffy thang I got from thrift store. It's ugg brand. Maybe I'll take a pic of me all bundled up in it for y'all LMFAO. It feels cleansing and healing of my heart chakra to have Tumblr community. Especially happy cus two of my strange beautiful amazing mooties r back. Welcome!

It takes patience and dedication and drive to do what I do for bf. Yesterday he telling me I've got no drive. Boy! I do too have drive! Sometimes I see him as a stranger. Jus some goofy manic pixie dream boy/man. Goofier tho than a dream...

Okie dokie just got out the gas station. You know what funny is my bf tried telling me they all don't like me. Yet jus now two the women was super duper nice to me and both said "you can do better than him" to me.

I giggling. Why giggle you ask? Well cuz I jus saw a slipper with a yellow smiley face and I'm also quite cocky inside and am like (on the inside): ladies and gentlemen i CAN do better. It's so weird I'm in this situation but my God our God have you witnessed trump in the past 8 years? I mean how silly and entropic can things get? It's devastating really. Here I am hopping through snow sludge~nimble, ever so nimble in my light grey new balance sneakers. I'm proud of em. Got em in September I think but they already got a hole in them. I refuse to buy any other type of shoe for the entirety of my existence.

Ok so I want to complain but it's too personal and wood surely anger my bf. Yay! I get to truly really call him my boyfriend with the utmost certainty now. I hope. It lightens my heart it really does. I can't believe I told Tumblr bout all my messy drama. Admittedly there's more but I done gossiping about such overwhelming negativity.

My friend on here whose a very talented artist told me she thinks I'm important in the way Im creative such as me writing this online diary ~may~ comfort or help other females feel better bout themselves or something. Cool.

I'm wearing grey leopard print leggings. Plain white shirt w a hole in it. Sports bra underneath. OffWhite big fuzzy sweater from target, on top of that ~White hoodie ,huge, from Walmart...on top of that a humongous ugg brand bluish fluffy pullover with four scarves and a knit purple and blue hat. Yay fashion diva here my people*~*Almost back to apt.

Bird tweets. Creek rippling waters soothe spirits and quench our soul. I often get confused am I supposed to say souls or soul? Love y'all ❄️

[phosphosuppmain]

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I am an Icarus, and this message is my wings. I wait only for the release that the hidden knowledge of this artistic text can grant me.

I thank you, Tumblr user lotsssuhtummedyumms, for granting me this magical opportunity. It has been an honour to enact your will.

[greatsaladavenue]

Replies to anons

I’ve heard Imagine ofcourse but I do like more solo stuff post Beatles by Paul and John then by George. Sorry Mom.

 Been a Beatle fan longer than I haven’t, my Mother is the Beatle fan, her favorite has always been George, and really super-stans him.

 She has seen Paul in concert but I have never heard a Paul post- Beatle song before 2022! Or John – aside of Imagine and, Live and let die and them christmas songs.

 Solo: George-”All things must pass album + When we was fab, All those years ago , Got my mind set on you.

Paul – McCartney, Ram + Tug of war, This one, Little lamb Dragonfly, , However Absurd, No More lonely nights.  John –Plastic ono band + Dream9 ,Working class hero, I know, I know, Mind games, Beautiful boy.

  Ringo – Photograph, Back off boogaloo, Midnight Vienna.

 My favorite is John because even before I knew anything about the Beatles or who wrote or sang what I liked John led songs. I still do. Don’t think he’s better that the others. In my world they where better together and neither was really better than the sum. I know what he did, I know he is bad and all that. Guess what I don’t really care.

 I have a type in looks and john fit there. My Dad and brothers are the musicians in our family but Dad and is more a Elvis fan, (he + a brother died some many years ago but see it's Paul in me talking of them ) my brothers likes them too but they are more hard rock/metal fans. (in music I have the 70-80's metal genre ! the favourite band I Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. GEORGE usually gets my vote post-Beatle look as favorite looking Beatle, old man is RINGO!

 I grew up in the late 80/90’s when rock music started to really to go down and rap took over. "Harry Potter" was huge, It was nice to be part of something like that but then Rowling happend... I even had a short boy band period. Eminem was the biggest artist on the planet. I like 80’s and 90’s rap too. I pretty much like older music and a big fan of 80’s pop music too, Prince, Michael Jackson. I really love music and not just the Beatles along with some other artists and bands has more song that I like or has grown on me with time. I guess it’s true that older music was better.

I sort of feel a bit lonely with my Beatles  nobody around me IRL cares or think they’re overrated. I can agree that sometimes the beatles fandom can be a bit too much with the ”The Beatles did eveything first” and hate other acts who also was very important for music. Ofcourse it matters that the Beatles was white, ”sic” as most of the fanbase.  I have so many favorites and I love that I do.

McLennon is what really got me into the fandom. I’m straight myself but I’d never like want to fuck a 80 + year old man but I would be a Beatle groupie back in the days and don’t care which one I would do all of them. However I don’t really care what and if something happend between them I just see what i see, I hear what I hear. J+P are not straight

 I’m a mclennon thruther they where in love with each other! They where gay for each other. I don’t push Mclennon on anybody but here on Tumblr I do. I don’t think I believe eveything I read here is true, I also think many trolling this fandom and some seem to make fun it and comes off as a bit offensive to them as IRL queers. I can understand why Paul’s not coming out. I wouldn’t either in this or as part of the older fandom.

However I’m all for RPF, Yaoi, Yuri and femme the hell out of them. They do have that humour. Also they did all of it themselves, Iol, meaning if they didn't act this way we wouldn't be here. And I don't mean it as famous people they get a queer card.

I’m happy to continue reading your fics and fortcoming posts here. I really am!  I’ll probably keep my existence here as a re-blogger  because Beatles fans aren’t always nice about "us nutcases here" ( but it's better here than on other forums) and too many trolls end up here on tumblr mclennon. all the Beatles have haters and super-stans. Both is just as bad in my opinion. I love them so much, all four of them so much I don’t really have a favorite in Beatles, JOHN still gets my vote I'm a John -girl but they are still so connected. I do like more John-Beatle-songs than by the others tho and was super gorgeous.  

McLennon is my secret sin. I can’t unsee it or explain in any other way. There's a hole missing in the Beatles history as much as in their lives (J+P but also George how he was "left out" tho Paul and him knew each other before. Wouldn't Paul be saying more insane stuff about him too?) things would fill the blanks with McLennon! How can people not see that is my biggest issue. But far too many still today would say like if you got kids, has a wife, has sex with girls, you can't be gay. Yes, they both married women. but Well.. It's mind-blowing. They were so into each other.

My favorites Beatle songs and solo also keep changing all the time:

But The Beatles: Albums: From With the Beatles. Rubber soul and the White album.

 A day in life is a masterpiece.

I also end up listing Happiness is a warm gun, Something, Here, there eveywhere, Across the universe, Help, I will, All my loving, And your bird can sing, Tomorrow never knows etc!

McLennon: Again!

I absolutly believe it was was real. They where in love. The end goodbye. Sex yes they had sex in many ways. But whatever, when how they did it or talked about it or kissed? I'm sure some of the answers is in fan fiction lol. Reality is worse than fiction. Lol. But sometimes  I don’t think they never thought it was a big deal, like it was part of a song to Paul or whatever, and John’s did something to do with glasses. Like that's not me, this is me look at me. No i don’t know but quite often I just think it’s exactly what they are saying and didn’t label it. Other times I think they knew perfectly well what they did and they made own words so only they would know. Now we have Paul's sane but !? version for 40 + years vs John's bat shit craze -like 6+ years. of course it gonna shape our version of them and what happend between them.

 I do think whatever happend in the end John left and walked out of it how, when, why again is another story. I honestly don’t think he ever was secure of anything in his life and Yoko didn't help. I can't or more like don't want to believe eveything that is written about her tho. But the way she looks at him in the beginning she did love him then and there. She has at least made good things too for the fandom, made hits herself, worked for peace and less guns etc.

Paul more like gave up. I don’t blame or think India caused it but it deffo did not help! But neither did think of themselves at least at that point that they would try to claim anyhing of course Paul wanted a family and John knew that. I don't really see how they could have "solved" in any other way. At that time.

I have more thoughts about it. Here's when my mind keep changing. Whos missed who the most? who's more depressed? Woah don't forget it also WAS and IS tough to leave friends and bandmates behind, please do include that. Not everthing is gay either! But I’m pretty sure more than we know knew about it or at least thought the same thing.

They where ALSO friends, brothers,close,bandmates and shared this magic connection with George and Ringo. Sometimes I believe they got jealous of each other’s closeness, especially post beatles and they did tried to re-create this with other people too and this is perhaps the most telling, besides quotes, interviews,pictures, videos and songs. Yeah many songs are about that and each other.

 I don’t push away the idea of other ships happening in the band or other male lovers but if it was only them, to either of them it may have add to some of the confusion. So I don’t hold that against it. Actually I don’t really care much about their lives or families outside of the Beatles. Lol. Neither of them.

My favorite Beatle girl is Cynthia. I just think she’s beautiful. And the only girl who didn’t marry a Beatle-Beatle. I don’t really think John would have stayed that long if he didn’t at some point love her. Or any of the other he "kept around but left behind".

[sinelanguage]

and for the museum of the day i was Considerably more excited for: the National Museum of Modern Art!! splitting this into two parts for my sanity, main exhibit first

one thing that impressed me about this museum was the overall presentation of descriptions used. a lot of art museums will present some information and context to the piece, but the national museum specifically tried to encourage people to read the text (metaphorically) and engage in Thoughts. it was pretty neat to look at a piece then see what specific emphasize the museum curator wanted to put on something.

For example, Nakanishi Natsuyuki’s piece Compact Object was described like this:

Fish bones, a rubber ball, a clock, seashells, hair.. this egg-shaped object seems to be packed with the contents of a garbage can. Or is it a time capsule, capturing a fleeting moment during a certain era? Nakanishi staged performances by bringing these clusters of everyday objects into public spaces, such as in the streets and on trains. His intent seems to have been to carry a microcosm of the world in his hands rather than to produce a sculpture that sits on a pedestal.

which, imo, does a decent job at explaining the intent but also promoting people to think about the intent going into objects on a level a bit further than just “here’s what this means.” this was pretty consistent in the museum’s presentation, which I really appreciated.

The other thing I thought was incredibly funny was this fucking. diary entry they had on display. keep in mind i was dead on my feet in this museum writing down notes to post to my tumblr blog and then read kishida ryusei’s diary from 1923:

Woke up around 10 o clock with a slight headache. Not surprising since i was up unttl three last night talking with Senge [Motomaro] and others, and that's why I overslept. Took a bath after breakfast. Got on the 1:49 pm train to Tokyo and then a taxi to Shintomiza. The play was about to start. My seat was excellent. Sendai Hagi is a famous kabuki play, but it was the first time I had actually seen it. The scenes performed were: the Bamboo Room, Cooking Rice, Under the Floor, The Showdown, The Scar. All of these were fascinating. I's not often these days that l immerse myself as deeply in kabuki as I did this time.

me, two museums in, feeling a profound kinship with this artist from a century ago writing a diary entry about his hang over but going to tokyo for three plays. as i write notes in my phone about art. incredible.

For actual pieces though there were quite a few:

Kayama Mayazo, Waves in Spring and Autumn thought this piece had a lot of really neat spins on some classic imagery (mountains, seasonal trees, waves/water). I especially liked the details of the waves breaking— the waves themselves were this even, looping/fluid lines but the edges were crashing with noisy scribbles

Komaki Gentaro, Bricks and a Squirrel: this is one of those “can’t explain myself”. the bricks had a very weird wood grain pattern, paired with a squirrel in this frightening black orb, completely surrounded. sometimes ur just a squirrel in an orb

Nomiyama Gyoji, The Withered: i like organic things in weird, inorganic messes. this was like, a rat king but with branches, and it was confusing to look at. enjoyed it a lot.

Kodama Yasue, ambient light - sakura: this is exactly what it says on the tin but for what it is it works really well. it’s just the impression of looking up at Sakura blossoms through sunlight, and man is it effective at it. I think in person this works better just for the size and detail of it- it captures the feeling of looking up through foliage very well and was very pretty to boot

Takanashi Yutaka, Hongo: Mansada Parlor, 6-17-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku from Machi imo all of takanashi’s photos had this very lived in quality to them, like a photo taken of a place that feels deeply familiar and like home. The collection overall has these deep colors and contrasts with mundane settings and a large amount of visual objects/interest, so it made the feel of the piece really nice (photos here)

overall: really solid, probably doesn’t beat the contemporary art museum but that’s just because my taste is what it is. for an art museum though, i really appreciated the approach and curation

[hammerhead-jpg]

Born to "Hiiiiii :3" forced to "What's up" (about me post)

About me page I'm so nervooouussd

I very much wanted to post things for fun and figured I would do it on Tumblr since it seems like a chill place where likes and follows don't matter and also my friends and family (which I'm not out to yet) follow me on every single social media and I do not want them stalking me when I post about who knows what

That being said, I do not come from the golden age of Tumblr or any age really but I do watch Strange Æons religiously so I'm not completely clueless ig, but if I break some sort of unspoken rule it wasn't me

All that unnecessary text aside, hi, my name is Kristian (although that name is not set in stone because I'm indecisive just trans things am I right) and I go by Kris, but you can also call me Hammerhead or Moonshine/Moon

I am a digital artist and have been drawing for like forever and my dream is to one day turn the story I'm currently working on into a visual novel/webcomic

(edit:) I'm sorry if I don't reblog a ton of posts, I know some people view not reposting posts as rude but it's just that I'm not used to being on social media that has a repost feature so I don't have the reflex to repost things

I'm queer and also transmasc <3

(also edit:) sorry if I don't respond to your comments complementing my art, it's just that I get nervous/don't know what to respond with, I assure you the complements are very appreciated and people who like/comment on/reblog my art have a special place in my heart

(also also edit) you can tag me in "tag x people" and tag chains and stuff but I probably won't continue the chain as I probably don't have enough people I would comfortably tag and even in that "would comfortably tag" group I am probably still too shy to tag them, and one or more of those people in that group are usually the ones that tagged me in the first place so it's not really like I could tag the person that tagged me in the tag chain??? Is anything I'm saying making sense???

My current fixations/ the fandoms I'm in are:

Redacted Audio (proud Cutie, Vega n Christian apologist RAAAAHHHHH 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅/j)(also proud Lasko stan and 7eleven trio shipper)

Bungou stray dogs (biggest Sigma stan)

MHA (although I'm kind of out of it, I'm mostly just silently keeping up with the manga but I am still kinda obsessed with mha ocs) (if you hate mha ocs or really any fan ocs DNI because I have like 40 of them) (no I am not a 30 yr. old woman shipping her self insert with Bakugo leave me alone)

Don't hug me I'm scared (not rlly in the fandom)

Chainsaw man (not rlly in the fandom)

Fear and Hunger aka Funger and Gunger (I can't say I'm really in the fandom and can't say I'm that involved into the game it's too big brain for me so I just observe it from afar and laugh at the memes)

DNI lists are kinda useless but racism, sexism, abelism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia ect is not tolerated here but also like if you're one of those people who are really ticked off when they see a minor talking about NSFW stuff and act all wise sage I suggest you DNI because I assure you your rambling and skull emojis are not going to prevent me from developing hypersexuality, you are like 11 years late to that my friend (or if you're just uncomfortable hearing a minor talk about nsfw that's cool too)

And also fuck off if you think sexualizing minors (fictional or not) is okay

This is a xenopronouns/neopronouns, xenogender, furry, therian safe space, I really don't judge

I think this goes without saying but cringe culture is dead, if you get pissy about things being cringy please don't come to the person who's internet alias is literally a Penelope Scott song, other alias is a reference to a gay ship from my hero academia and the person who named themselves "Kristian" because they thought that naming themselves (the atheist) a name that means "God's follower" was hilarious, but again this is tumblr so I expect most people here are cringelords

Anyways, fuck you Adam you can go suck my long horse weewee, Moon x supremacy always

Also if I tell anyone to kts I was just joking PLEASE

[possum-apologist]

love the puritan culture on tumblr where a person can never redeem themselves after doing something shitty, apologizing genuinely, and promising to make the effort to do better. if you watched his video you would know he is absolutely NOT baiting hatewatchers. not only did he move cities because of the harassment and death threats he was facing, he tried to fucking kill himself.

was plagiarizing the work of tons of queer artists a bad thing to do? yes. has he had some iffy opinions in the past? yes again. but if a person isn't able to redeem themselves then what's the point in even trying. wouldn't you rather they try to start over with the lessons they've learned? are people not allowed to fuck up and try again?

I had never heard of this man until the hbomberguy video and have no personal stakes in this. I just think continuing to go after this man and declare that he's only apologizing/starting over to get hatewatchers is a brain dead take and that some of you need to log off for a while and go outside. or start a hobby that doesn't revolve around determing whether a person (a stranger on the internet, no less) is worthy of redemption for something they appear to be genuinely remorseful for.

So what we're NOT gonna do when James Somerton inevitably starts releasing new videos is hatewatch them, okay? Because a view is still a view whether or not it was watched with rage and disdain in your heart, you KNOW they'll be monetized, and at this point I'm sure he's doing this precisely TO bait in hatewatchers

Don't fund his comeback arc. Let him fade into obscurity like he deserves

[silentanomaly]

More fan art related to what's actually happening in the universes these settings and characters take place in *that isn't* trying to be cute, sexy, carefree, wholesome, and happy. Please. Tumblr takes all the things people want in their real lives, and depicts them within fictional settings in the cringiest ways, to where I get to the point where I don't wanna see these themes depicted. I'm no longer seeing the characters you're depicting. I'm just seeing your personal fantasies. I've seen enough, lmao.

The concept could be based in a universe/setting that ill affords any of those characteristics mentioned...and Tumblr artists will unironically try to make it so. Something something indomitable spirit of man...incessant libido and cries of loneliness/lack of fulfillment in their lives, more like.

I wouldn't be complaining if it wasn't so often just bad, or was meant to be ironic. But, I mean, if we gotta take things that aren't meant to be cute or sexy like...at all...and depict them unironically...the fuck are we doing?

Bad enough that their art style is a pain to look at and that I'll come across it any given moment. But, their ideas are shite too, and I question the morals of a lot of them. Just making a perversion of the source content, really. Bastardizing it. Point of the original source content just going over their heads. Congrats on making it your own and showing everyone...wowee.

Whatever happened to imitation being a sincere form of flattery? Whatever happened to understanding the source material in it's true nature and producing something from that? Show me that you can draw in similar styles to the source content that inspired you in the first place, if you're an artist who is going for immersion, accuracy, or just wanting to do the source material justice. Otherwise...you're gross for drawing that character in such an extra way. Beat off before you churn out "art," freaks. But, really, too much pornographic shit about video games and shows. Or something that's trying to force you into mush (more often inspiring ire, like get that forced feel good shit away from me, you're weird for depicting this, talk to someone). Could go in so many directions with these mediums, and yet...we get so much coomer crap, or something that's trying too hard to make you feel good. Ew.

I find solace in that these artists feel like they're bad artists when people make fun of them for their cringe ideas, and the fact that they commonly don't show their art to people they're commonly involved with in real life..like their families. Their employer at their regular job would want to fire them...not to suggest people should be making art for anyone in particular. Just that their art would inspire a feeling of disgust in a lot of people.

And that brings me to...the fact that people should be making art for themselves. I'd like to credit these bad artists for that, but, a lot of them took their talent and went off to produce shit for attention (posting it all over the internet, easiest least consequential way for cowards to show off their controversial crap)...for reactions...to cater to a specific audience...ugh. Might have started out as a personal thing. But, I can't help but notice some artists with (I say this loosely) cult followings for some of their OCs based in a universe that is not original to them. And in a way that is sad but also funny because that's sort of the only way some of these artists would get attention is if they piggybacked off someone else's otherwise popular creations, and inserted their imposter art in a setting where anyone and everyone could see if they just scroll their news feed or something...better yet for them, algorithms are now spreading that shit around without their effort being involved.

Yea, I'd like to receive praise for whatever art I produce too. But, first and foremost I'd be doing all that for me, praise or not, and honestly...if I were to create something inspired by my libido...I'd keep that shit to myself 'cause I ain't trying to rope random people into my fantasies. I don't need community for my libido or whatever art I would produce that is otherwise horny, if any. You guys and gals are fucking weird.

In before single cell bigot trackers show up to tell me I'm a 'phobe for discouraging libido based community - as anyone with any comprehensive thinking skills wouldn't rope LGB into what I was saying since there's so much more to LGB community (and why there needs to be a community) than what turns them on. Thank you. I don't have time for people with no reading comprehension misconstruing this, and I feel compelled to specify this because this is absolutely the place where somebody would try and pull that with me, lol.

Anyway, cum brains - touch grass. Read a book. Connect with a real person. Maybe establish something with some sort of meaning beyond what makes your libido twitch. Then try and produce art...ffs.

[genuflecting]

I've had a bunch of things circling around my head for days and they don't seem to want to leave on their own, so I'm going to try writing them out in a long post that no one had to read, but if you're nosy like me you're welcome to and I promise the bad vibes can't past it past the readmore, you can check them at the door

the guy I like wasn't at the party I went to last weekend and no one there even had his contact info (I got brave and asked the person who I thought knew him but it turned out to be a dead end) so now I have to wait for the group's every other month party and hope he turns up to that, which will probably be a Halloween party so that'll be an interesting extra element. I've just been so hung up on it cause my attraction to people in real life is so incredibly rare and I want to act on this, but it feels so out of my control and if I'm this sad at not seeing him for two months I'm gonna be REALLY really sad if four months later I still don't see him. I wish my taste in people was broader so I could just. not feel so lonely!

I think the loneliness/striking out has mutated alongside dysphoria into me feeling extremely dysmorphic and sad lately, which I like a lot less than my hopeful new outlook I had for the few months before that

I'm feeling very tired of being misgendered absolutely constantly in public, and especially of feeling like my mom just sees me as "woman lite". I almost wish she just saw me as a man, but I specifically don't identify with a binary gender because I don't want people to lug in all their gendered baggage and assumptions and bury me in them, so instead I'm stuck with not being seen as a man at all.

The dysphoria seems to have been fanned by not seeing that guy at the party and feeling insecure about that, but especially by the interaction at said event where (someone who is also nonbinary) made weird and gross biologically essentialist comments (cited in another post, man I wish tumblr had citations honestly, I know I'm a fucking nerd but how fun would that be, anyway). I went through a period of feeling way more confident in my body and how my gender (and sex, frankly) are congruous with my identity and that I can be a gay guy who isn't questioned or dissonant, and that just felt so regressed by that interaction and my doubts of how people perceive me and, by extension of anxiety, how the guy I like might see me.

Seeing a post where someone in the comments conflated dom/sub with top/bottom and also made the most "clearly hasn't had sex, doesn't know what they're talking about" reference to being a "top in real life, bottom in bed" and vice versa and I just wish I could make people stop using all of those terms if they don't know what they mean. oh, you're anally receptive in your daily non-sexual life? No wonder being on tumblr set me back with my understanding of sex and relationships, people just talk about it with zero grounding in reality

Then seeing a guy refer to "transition scars" in a piece of art's replies (where the cis male artist gave a character very tired vine patterns in place of top surgery scars) and then I went to the commenter's blog and his bio said that he's distrustful of fandoms predominantly made up of women fetishizing m/m ships, ie all of them, and I'm just like Man, way to do one of the worst things you can do for trans men while claiming the most superficial support. the way I still have to reassure myself that that's not what I'm doing when I experience attraction to another man as a man, because of fear mongering arguments like that.

Lastly in the vein of maybe I should stop opening the notes of posts at all, is seeing someone claim that the "mauraders fandom" is a "totally separate" fandom from the hateful wizard books and not related, thus they shouldn't be accused of promoting transphobic work, and someone had to break down for them exactly how stupid that argument is. The fact that they're apparently telling themselves that explains why the acquaintance I know who I already wasn't comfortable being friends with because she still goes to Catholic church with her family was comfortable referencing reading mauraders fanfiction while knowing she was in front of a trans person. It was just so much to realize the fact that this is just a continuation of the same bullshit people have been spewing for years about death of the author, in front of my trans literature major ass who has actually read roland barthes and knows that's not even kinda what the essay is about.

Anyways I'm tired, trans, and angry, and I would just like some critical thought, gender affirmation, and gay sex as a treat.

[drawnecromancy]

Author ask game

Tagged by @isabellebissonrouthier ! thanks :)

Tagging : @the-stray-storyteller, open tag bc idk who else would like to be tagged ^^

I'll be talking about Le Prix du Sang here.

1) What is the main lesson of your story (e.g. kindness, diversity, anti-war), and why did you choose it?

There isn't any that I'm currently planning on having. Whether I'll find one on the way or not is still up for debate. I'm not giving lessons, I'm just throwing awful people in the same general area and looking at what they do.

2) What did you use as inspiration for your worldbuilding (like real-life cultures, animals, famous media, websites, etc.)?

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh [blanking]

There's definitely the. General european fantasy setting you'd expect from a european writer, i guess.

Although this place's worldbuilding is, specifically, based on a no-fun-allowed discussion I've had with my sister AGES ago when I was a teenager. What if it had magic, but was an awful fucking place ?

Idk. I tend to pick inspiration from a lot of places and it's hard for me to pinpoint one thing exactly. I can tell you when rereading that "ah, i probably picked that bit up from Ewilan" or "oh, this is absolutely because I hated X thing in les Chevaliers d'Emeraude", or even "oh okay this whole dye business is absolutely because of some of the classes i had".

Definitely, the fact that Monthaut is known for its high quality wool fabric is because of my classes.

3) What is your MC trying to achieve, and what are you, the writer, trying to achieve with them? Do you want to inspire others, teach forgiveness, help readers grow as a person?

She's trying to achieve having a stable life for once, and once she gets at she's trying to keep it no matter what it takes.

I'm trying to see how interesting I can make that while sometimes the secondary characters are doing most of the stuff.

I want readers to come watch those fucked up little guys with me. Again. I'm not going to teach you SHIT. Come look at my weirdoes. They're kind of awful. Wanna see how far they can take their bullshit ?

4) How many chapters is your story going to have?

I have no idea ! Several, definitely ! I've written, uh, 8 of them so far. We're not past the halfway point. So at least double that ?

5) Is it fanfiction or original content? Where do you plan to post it?

Original content. I don't plan on posting it, but on hopefully going the traditional publishing route.

6) When and why did you start writing?

Good question ! A long time ago is the best i can do.

I do think I used to write random snippets when i was a very young kid, just for fun, to entertain myself. Then it was writing stories with my younger sister, just for the both of us.

We'd always find ways to put links to each other's stuff in our writings. Were our main characters actually related ? Did they just know each other for whatever reason ? Etc.

7) Do you have any words of engagement for fellow writers of Writeblr? What other writers of Tumblr do you follow?

Uhh... I consider myself to be a little bit to the left from writeblr because this is just my personal blog, man. I just happen to be a writer and an artist.

A lot of my friends tend to be these things too, altho I'm not super sure they'd consider themselves part of writeblr (hi Mal my beloved, Jo, Zach!, Alren); so I'm not tagging them here. Again, don't know if that'd bother them.

For people who have writeblrs that I follow, well, there's Isabelle and Stray I've already tagged, and @holdmyteaplease (also, if you do want to do this tag game, feel free!i just don't know if you do tag games LMFAO); and I think that's about it.

[unscryptedchatter]

#rant

man this ai shit is so depressing like. at least artists have glaze to put over their artwork that fucks up the ai but writers? there's nothing we can do. any raw text we submit is going to be scraped and there's nothing we can do about it

writers who write exclusively by making threads on twitter, fucked. tumblr? no one reads these, be fr. ao3, ffn? fucked. it's just so fucking awful and it makes me not want to write because I know it'll just be taken from me by corporations that are going to profit from it

i have so many thoughts, i want to give characters the whole world and see what they'll do with it, I want to take everything away from them and see what it does to them. I want to put them in the most fucked up situations and I want to see them find themselves in the eyes of their most beloved, I want every ounce of affection I was never given, I want to see the childhood I never had and I want to see characters that are put in the same position as I had been and come out of it better people than i have become. I want to see characters in worse situations learn to heal and love again, I want to watch as their hearts are torn apart by cruelty and death,

i already suffered so much w executive dysfunction and inability to do things i like and knowing anything i do will just be taken, it just . what's the point. what's the point of doing anything anymore? where's the enjoyment in knowing you're just a slave to billionaires? god the internet fucking sucks nowdays fuck capitalism fuck billionaires fuck people who think they're entitled to steal the work of others

[writingpracticetime]

Hey! Before the ask, I just wanna say I LOVE the constructor work and the whole superhero world going on, and on that note, I’ve got a pair of questions:

One: Is there a good place I can read all the constructor stories?

Two: What’re the constructors pronouns? I’ve never seen them referred to in the third person (that I remember) outside of they/them.

Thank you! I’m glad that you like the story so far. 

One: I have been thinking of setting up a wordpress or something, considering how shitty tumblr is at organizing anything. For now, though, I do have a tag (link) a link to read through the tag in chronological order based on when I wrote it (link) and a page with links to everything written for the verse so far which I try to update (link).

Two: I actually have been trying to avoid pronouns intentionally, though I also haven’t been objecting to any of the ones people use. If I’ve even used “they” that was an accident. I have been doing this because I have been trying to keep the spirit of writing Constructor as a hero anyone can see themselves in. Whether you’re a man, woman, other, etc. Whether you are okay with being called “them” or whether you fucking it hate it when people do that. 

Now of course, this has turned into a moot point because it seems when not told a specific gender, people will automatically assume Constructor is a man. I think I have mostly seen “he” to refer to Constructor, along with the occasional “they” (since this is tumblr). There has never once been a tag, comment or ask referring to Constructor as “she,” though I would have accepted that just as much. 

I suppose that it’s impossible for me to make a universal hero. Social expectations of what a person like Constructor (builder, architect, superhero, revolutionary) would be will fill in any artistic gaps I try to leave. Plus I suppose my own upbringing and perception of the world will color how Constructor acts in a way that might imply a certain background or gender.

But even so, for as long as I can I want to leave it open. Because no matter who you are, I want you to be able to imagine Constructor could be you. Even if I don’t have the chops to write Constructor to be like you, and even if social expectations say Constructor could never be someone like you. Because I really believe the feelings that caused me to create Constructor–altruism, compassion, hope, ambition, disillusionment, rage–can be experienced by anyone. 

And I also believe anyone can be a hero. Or a villain. 

So I might canonize some pronouns later for convenience, but for now I will just stick to the method I have been using, avoiding pronouns and letting the audience make their own inferences.

[bloonfroot]

actually i'm pushing back against this mindset. i agree with the suicide one and the general air of being kinder to oneself, that part is true, yall gotta drop the self-depreciating humor, we have normalized it far too much. but that's not what this post is REALLY getting at.

what it's actually saying is that you are a lesser writer if you do any of these. it's old internet elitism repackaged, and sold to young tumblr fanwriters as "advice" and "self care". but pay close attention, and you'll start to see how underhanded and stuck-up it actually is.

"--tells me you didn't care." "Okay, I won't read it then." "--you don't know what your story is about if you can't give us 2-4 main tropes and themes."

the bias here is entirely rooted in the fact that your writing is not GOOD ENOUGH if you can't present it in a professional fashion. because if it doesn't sound like you're writing an email to your coworkers in your AO3 summary, you aren't a real writer. that's the real sentiment. not you, your work, your health, or your enjoyment, or whatever other bullshit this post used to couch that real sentiment:

your work is inherently inferior because you didn't do this or that the way they consider the "correct"--and therefore only--way.

it's really just designed weigh you down, pressure you to conform--which will likely just discourage you away from your passion for the damn work entirely, if you don't--by speaking down to you for failing to meet their set of standards. you know, for the art that you're producing for free. it's not good enough. you aren't good enough. you didn't meet these standards so you shouldn't have posted at all.

as a writer of both fics and novels, if you believe that my work is not good enough for you because i didn't cross my t's and dot my i's and present you a fucking polished manuscript, then my work's not for you! derogatory! go away! you are not WELCOME to read as far as i'm concerned. you can fuck clean off!

this elitist mindset has been prevalent in any and all online writing spaces, fanwork or not, since i came up at least, and it's been consistently discouraging me my entire life and quite frankly, i'm over it. so let's rock the boat a little:

hubert selby jr. got a movie deal on a book in which the only period was at the end of his name. the man published three novels, and never met a quotation mark in his life. i don't fucking care if you like or hate it--the books themselves or the way he wrote them--because he did it and it's still art and it's still worthy.

enough people DIDN'T turn their nose up at his "incorrect" writing style that he got a movie deal. enough people won't turn their nose up at my funnily named fic that i will get the engagement i desire. you will not be one of them. good. bye.

in the aughts i watched a live Q+A on deviantart hosted by MARGARET FUCKING ATWOOD, in which the attendees mocked her in the chat for using emojis and text speech, reacting as if it was unprofessional of her, treating her as if every time she posted a smiley face, her work and her value and insight as a writer and the reverence at having her come talk with us budding writers AT ALL was lost bit by bit.

margaret atwood.

and i didn't use emojis, or indulge in reading or writing fics, until i turned ~21, despite growing up entirely online, because i was so rattled by that. if such a foible can dethrone an icon, i'd have to walk a very rigid line in order to be taken seriously, yes?

except i wasn't having fun, i wasn't enjoying it. i wasn't impressed with or fond of my work. nor was anybody else. i still struggle with that now.

the negative impact of this kind of bullshit on young artists is absolutely real and detrimental. y'all turned hard on art hate blogs but this is good and correct?

FUCK this mindset. when i publish a fic that still has the jokey wip title attached, i'm doing it in honor of god damn margaret atwood. because i was too scared to stand up for her, and for myself, when i was a kid, and i'm doing it for every single writer who recognized their own work habits in this shit show of a post.

make art however the fuck you want forever.

never ever listen to anyone who tells you you're "doing it wrong". they will drain you of creativity, inspiration, and motivation, and you will feel as if you're losing your craft.

ESPECIALLY with fan fiction. what are you, my publisher? mind your business. you want it your way, go to burger king.

or idk, use the filter functions and refrain from engaging with those you deem lesser WITHOUT running your mouth about it and forcing the onus of YOUR bias onto the writer.

when we change to please others, we lose that piece of ourselves, and we do so for a person who will NEVER actually be pleased. they have already judged you. create for yourself first, and second for the people who will enjoy it, and no one else.

I'm begging y'all, put at least minimum care into how you present your fics to the public.

"idk man you name it im tired" as a title tells me you didn't care.

"This is STUPID" in the tags. Okay, I won't read it then.

"I don't know how to do tags" tells me you didn't bother taking one look at any page in the archive to see how others tag and use it as reference. Or, you know, you could have asked, too.

"idk if this is trash, bc I worte this in the middle of the night bc idrk" in the summary doesn't really encourage me to open the story.

3 lines of tags on a 4k monitor, none of which are actual searchable tags but a stream of consciousness about the author's sleeping habits and music preferences, tell me you don't know what your story is about if you can't give us 2-4 main tropes and themes. Also, this isn't tumblr, come on mate.

"I hate myself for this fic" okay? Why did you write it then if it brought you discomfort? Moreover, why did you post it???

"Why Did I Write This?" well, hobbies are about joy and fun, if writing doesn't make you happy then maybe it's time to look for something else to do in your free time? No point in making yourself miserable.

"The Author Regrets Everything" paired with more self-deprecating tags suggest I better not bother opening the fic because it clearly made the author miserable and why would I be miserable as well?

"killing myself rn" please get help.

0 additional tags is better than that. Writing and sharing fics should be an act of care, not anguish.