#motherhenna

[motherhenna]

Had a lot of fun making these! Translating my OCs into a more cartoony style was an interesting project. Though it's mostly for my own personal use, stickers are now available on redbubble for anybody who's interested!

[firstkil]

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[starrrbakerrr]

Hi! Can you recommend any everlark or thg blogs? I’m new and don’t know who to follow

There are so many!

If you want gifs and such, @dailythg is important to follow.

Meta, fanfiction, book-focused and Everlark centered content: @thesmileykate @rosegardeninwinter @mollywog @katnissmellarkkk @thesweetnessofspring

Fanart: there’s such good fanart, it’s one of my favorite things in the tumblr sphere. There are so many talented people on here and I’m sure I’m missing someone but @gremlinddrawss @leulahart @little-lynx @millennium-queen @thekayart @lionydoorin @tellmelater @smallpapers @rosenacree @vixnarts @charlunday @cassidyjaneart @motherhenna have regularly posted Everlark fanart in recent months/years and it’s so good!

I follow a lot of tags like #everlark etc, and that’s helped me find a lot of people that post about the Hunger Games, too!

[peeta-pocket]

love to see that we had a similar meltdown about Katniss’s peaceful expression, succumbing? submitting? (but like positively) to love in @motherhenna’s gorgeous art 🥹 it’s what she deserves

Hi darling!! Ohhh my lawd, okay so I just had to go find your post to read your tags and um hi hello, we are totally sharing a brain right there and i'm so incredibly happy about that haha.

YES!!! I simply cannot get over her facial expression of those very words we used to describe it. @motherhenna's piece evoked so many emotions for me all at once. It's as if she feels completely surrendered by and to his love - fully accepting the bliss and the peace that goes along with that. What gets me the most? The absolute trust and bravery in accepting such a feeling, especially with her background of being abandoned by her mother, then going into survival mode and forced responsibility, thereby shutting out even the possibility of love as it is considered dangerous because of where that could all lead; it's not just about a relationship that would lead to having children that could go into the games, but loving someone so deeply that you are etched into each other's soul and if they leave in any capacity, she would be broken like her mother was after her father died. When you grow up with that mindset, even the possibility of loving someone is terrifying and also unthinkable that it would be reciprocated or deserved. Her bravery to make that leap combined with her trust in Peeta's love and devotion is one of my very favorite parts of their relationship and just thinking about that makes my chest ache.

Ugh okay, I have to stop because honestly, I could talk about THAT aspect alone forever (I see so much of myself in Katniss when it comes to that it hurts) and could very easily write a 1000 word essay on it haha. When I say the hold these two have on me is peak-level insanity, I truly mean it haha

[artist-rat]

Are your commissions still closed? I'm only asking because of the message you answered a couple days ago saying you have a waitlist--don't want to be a bother but I really like your TES art and would love to see my own TES characters in your style someday~

heyy! ohhh yeah that might've been a bit confusing but yeah, they're still closed atm! i'll open commissions + the waitlist again in early January!

(dw you're not a bother at all! and that sounds great! i remember seeing your own art around (love it!) and the pics i saw of your TES characters back then were absolutely LOVELY! very much looking forward to it if you're still feeling like getting a comm once i open them again! <3)

[motherhenna-art]

Some OC eyes--a redraw of a really old piece I did back in 2012~

[veinslikefeathers]

i have to be fluent in photoshop and illustrator for my ma, so i did three (3) things

[damianvertigo]

is that his [stand] or his fursona?

(via Li4mricee)

[jadebots]

@motherhenna

wait do people not think it's funny? It practically defined my sense of humor throughout junior high and hs

YES ACTUALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE DO they just like... think it’s something entirely different than what it is.

To tbh be honest it perfectly captures what being a nerdy teen in rural America is like. 

[little-lynx]

JOHANNA MASON

We did another monthly challenge with the girls on Instagram! This time we were drawing Johanna ;) I loooooove every single one! Just looks how amazingly different they are! I really love to be a part of thg fanart community ❤️ please check all the girls profiles, they are great! ❤️ aaaaaaand something really sweet is coming in September 🍂🍁

@oakfarmer @theartofdreaming1 @am2cdesign @motherhenna-art ❤️

[anotherpokemontale]

I… freaking.. loved this quest :’< even more than the other two tbh

Wanted to capture one of my favorite moments from SV--I've replayed the game like six times but Arven and Buddy always make me tear up.

Remember that every reblog and tag mean the world!

[zu-art]

Full-body commission for @motherhenna of her awesome OCs! It's the second time I draw them ♥

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[b0zart]

Simon for @motherhenna ✨

[artist-rat]

commission for @motherhenna​ of her wonderful skyrim OCs! 💚

[schomp-mazda]

@motherhenna

I can't stress enough how much the John Green debacle was an early example of how cancel culture and purity culture combine to make people feel righteously justified to engage in harassment.

John Green, during his time on tumblr, committed the heinous sins of...being neurodivergent and talking openly about it, earnestly interacting with fans in a very direct and unfiltered way, and writing about teenagers navigating first love and sexuality while he himself was an adult. The worst things he ever did were be a little cringe or misspeak, for which he was always prompt to apologize (often whether he really needed to or not).

Yet despite the former two being things tumblr claimed to love and the last one being true of 99.99% of YA authors, in this case a large segment of tumblr users steeped in the early 2010s resurgence of purity culture decided that these things were suspicious and predatory, and used that as an excuse to justify some truly awful behavior.

Which is really all that cancel culture is: the normalization and even celebration of the process of misapplying morality or ethics to dehumanize someone for the express purpose of justifying whatever pain and suffering you want to inflict upon them. Basically, deciding "this person is bad, so I am exempt from affording them basic respect and human dignity, and am allowed to cross any and all otherwise uncrossable lines in order to punish them without damaging my own moral or ethical standing."

Contrary to popular tumblr lore, the infamous "cock monologue" was not the sum total of the harassment, or even the worst of it. Callout blogs issued long lists of "receipts" about how terrible John Green was, most if not all of which were either taken out of context or completely refutable. His works were torn to shreds by people who'd never read them, as evidenced by much of the criticism being obviously and blatantly counter to the actual contents of the books.

Not that it mattered. Once the John Green hate party reached a certain level of critical mass, it became less about who he actually was or what he'd done, and more about proving you were a good person by hating him. That's the natural conclusion of cancel culture, after all: virtue signalling by identifying yourself in opposition to the cancelled parties. They're bad, and I'm good, so I hate them! Or, more often: They're bad, and I hate them, so I'm good!

Before it was over with, John Green had been accused, with no evidence, of being everything from a Nazi to a pedophile and subjected to hate mail and death threats. He eventually left the site for the sake of his own mental health, and because he no longer felt comfortable engaging directly with fans in the same way he once had.

Yet even now, with the benefit of hindsight, and even among those who ostensibly reject purity culture and condem bullying and harassment, very few on tumblr take what was done to John Green as seriously as it should be taken or condemn it as thoroughly as it should be condemned. Which I think is something we need to at least consider doing, given the increasing rise of purity and cancel culture online, and given the recent influx of professional creators eager to interact with fans on a more direct level than they have on other social media.

And my concern is not purely, or even primarily, for the Mike Flanagans and Lynda Carters of the world. I'm far more concerned, actually, for the small, independent or self-published creators in this space, and how much even a very small level of visibility gives too many people a feeling of carte blanche to engage in harassment.

I myself have less than 3k followers on here, a handful of popular posts, and zero notoriety or consequence outside of tumblr whatsoever, and I've been repeatedly told to kill myself for saying such innocuous things as "I don't think censorship is the cure for the world's evils" and "maybe learning the history of communities you want to participate in would be a good idea."

Thankfully, all it took for me to stop the harassment that came my way was to block those few individuals. But there have been many instances over the years of small creators or just random tumblr users that got a bit popular being stalked, doxxed, swatted, and harassed to the point of leaving the site and dealing with serious mental health issues as a result. It has never been just John Green. John Green isn't even the worst example. And tumblr has never learned its lesson.

[motherhenna-art]

more of my Hogwarts AU: Isa Vesperelle, the Astronomy professor from 1919-1981, and head of Ravenclaw house for 60+ years.