#oooooo what are you???

[helaenadream]

the hotd fandom’s reaction to gwayne hightower has been nothing short of baffling to me so far. it’s no secret that people’s love to hate criston cole has been prone to making them miss the point in a major way but this to me is kind of a new level. the idea that he is “slay” or “serving cunt” or even that he legitimately sees through criston and resents him for being a bad person is a stunning misinterpretation of what the show is obviously saying. which is that gwayne hightower is racist. he talks to criston that way because criston is brown. and poor.

[ajay1oo]

lukeeseeese.... just making my inner child happy bc i used to eat up watching those mcsm comic dubs by like that one artist i forgot the name I think princess??? 😭

[thebumblingbookbee]

It would be fun if Ty from another world was reaching out to Kit through dreams and they end up teaming up and we got to see this worlds Ty jealous of himself

[fanta-seee]

Oldest brother moment

[stellewriites]

does butch!simon have any piercings? i can totally picture him with nipple piercings & a septum too 👐🏻👐🏻

oh anon i was thinking about this just earlier today when i was making a few moodboards for the butch!141

if i hadn’t already made my mind up i’d be jumping up and down screaming yippee and hurray at this but!! i think si sticks to tats only for now, it’s going to be butch soap that gets the nipple piercings and septum 🫠

i just think she’d be an absolute menace to society and especially poor reader. picture her walking around w no bra because she’s “not allowed to wear one while they heal” but then spends the entire time you’re together whining about how her tight workout vest keeps rubbing and irritating them and you know she’s just a second away from asking you to slip a hand up and help relieve the ache since your hands aren’t as calloused as hers 🥺🥺🥺 pleaseeeee bonnie?

[skumhuu]

Why. . .

WHY DID YOU DRAW DREAMMARE??? THEY SIBLINGS. WHAT THE FUCK??? LIKE, I DON’T CARE IF THEY’RE FICTIONAL, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU???

-Starbright

Gonna draw 50 more pgs of them fucking & dedicate it to u

[polysucks]

hii!!! i just wanted to ask if it's okay to draw the starks as indigenous, as a non native myself? I wanted to draw lyanna in atla katara's animated style, and I understand that the water nation is heavily inspired by Inuit culture.

Oh my god, Hi!

I'm genuinely very sorry to turn your question into a whole thing but I think you have opened a door for a conversation that needs to be had and I am so so so excited you asked!!!!! I also have fatal yapping disease!!

I am so honored that you came to me to ask if it was okay for you, someone who self identifies as not a descendant from the land's first peoples to make art that depicts the culture of the land's first peoples.

I am not an authority on what is respectful, or disrespectful when depicting any culture.

No one truly is.

tl;dr at the bottom of this I prommy.

This post includes links to references and educations that go to websites outside tumblr, and are best viewed on desktop devices and with adblockers. Nothing malicious, I just linked everything from my desktop with a variety of adblockers in play lmfao

When it comes to the design of the Northern and Southern Water Tribes of ATLA, there's alot of mixed opinions! But the consensus, from what I've seen, seems to be that any representation that goes beyond the surface zeitgeist caricature and doesn't feed into harmful stereotypes is positive representation. Everything boils down to the roots of representation.

Now, as far as representation goes, I am NOT a good person to ask--I am white passing. So much so that I have red hair. I can throw a stone and hit five pieces of media where I feel I can see myself (I mean, why do you think I latched so hard onto Sansa?) But I'm someone who exists severely intersectionally and that is what representation means.

"...positive representation can build self-confidence in individuals. It offers them role models to look up to and people and characters to be inspired by ... They can be the superhero, the doctor, the actor or whoever they want to be...We all benefit from learning about different experiences and expanding our notion of what is “normal”" - What Exactly Is Media Representation, Anyway? By Yasmina Tawil for the Arab Film Institute blog

When depicting any culture you are not rooted in, or have any personal experience with, the ultimate question is: what are your intentions?

because, baby-- the fact that you even asked in the first place means you already have respect in your heart.

Okay, sure, you may have asked because you're an artist and you don't wanna get cancelled. It's easy to get cancelled as an artist, today's society hates artists (that's fascism for you, but like, not gonna touch that one rn lmfao)

I'm not assigning that mentality to you. I'm not assuming anything about your intentions.

But I am mentioning it because alot of us do think that way, because the fact is that this type of thinking is extremely common and way more widespread in our current environment than we would like to say. This mindset is detrimental to our human way of thinking, our sense of community, and prevents art from being made long before the idea is even formed. There are too many artists that are too afraid to ask. That are too afraid to post their work. Because of Woke.

Okay, jokes aside-- we're afraid of being cancelled.

We're afraid of being disrespectful.

We're afraid of stepping on toes.

And the easiest way to combat this-- both, the overwhelming fear and shame, and the possibility of doing a disservice to a culture-- is to have an open heart and mind.

Cultural Inspiration

Lyanna Stark in similar garb to Katara is (personally) SOOOOOOO on-brand bro. Not even joking.

and there's soooo many parallels I could write a whole essay-- man i just might holy fuck dude what a concept

I base alot of my personal headcanons for Northmen and First Men fashion off of native Athabascan cultures, which are adjacent and/or descendant of ancient Mongolian cultures via the Bering Land Bridge. but I also get jiggy w it as far as man, this is fantasy. If you can mix pirate culture w viking culture for the Ironborn, you can mix european medieval fashion with indigenous talent and taste.

And at first glance (Idk I gotta do more research into this one tbh) this seems to be where the artists for ATLA also got their vision for the water tribes!

Thanks to Meemawdean's amazinggggggg requests, I drew a series of NDN Stark Depictions (Lyanna) (Sansa) and a couple of other scragglers that spawned a FUCKTON of questions pertaining to indigenous culture and how I depict it in my art that alot of people were too embarrassed or afraid to ask publicly. But I will give you the answer I give everyone. Online, and IRL:

It's not that serious.

Get jiggy with it.

Like for example I was getting my hair did back in october. and I was talking to the [white] stylist about being native and how my hair is sacred.

She got so upset about touching it, about how I asked her to cut it and style it. She was so scared to fuck it up.

I told her that if I didn't want her services--whether she "fucked it up" or not-- I wouldn't have come here. That just because something is sacred, doesn't mean you can't use it.

Even if she did give me a bad haircut (which she didn't!!! My hair looked amazing) I wouldn't be upset because it was with good intentions. Hair is temporary. It will always come back.

I honor my hair as sacred. That doesn't mean I can't cut it, dye it, burn it, style it, lose it, or play with it.

I do all of that out of love for myself, love for my body, love for my hair, love for my ancestors, love for my culture.

Some can argue that I'm doing my body, my culture, my ancestors a disservice, that I'm being disrespectful.

But any expression of love for your fellow man, no matter how misguided, uneducated, or rooted in opinion or ignorance it is, as long as it's with the pure intention of love, is sacred. and should be regarded as such.

So make art!

Have ideas!

Cut your hair!

Tattoo your body!

Ask questions you're afraid of being called stupid or insensitive for!

whats the worst thing that happens? Your feelings get hurt?

Feelings are temporary. They will always come back.

tl;dr

yeah man draw indigenous people. we don't really give a fuck, for the most part, as long as you do a little research and show some respect and love and like. give a fuck about what you're contributing to the image of these cultures :3

[vcaart]

We like cringey old oc redesigns here right?

Original (full size):

[archersartcorner]

(This AU) One Spock only tells lies. The other only feels uncontrollably. Sorry about the transporter malfunction,

[autisticaradiamegido]

As Artfight comes to a close, I find myself yearning for the thrill of the challenge. And also, the feeling of having a set thing to draw every day.

So in the spirit of turning my brain off and engaging in absolute artistic hedonism I give you: ARADIA AUGUST

The challenge where I draw Aradia Megido every day in August.

Inspired partially by @forgetful-river 's 50 days of Aradia earlier this year, and partially by my own autistic desire to draw only Aradia for all 12 months of the year, the rules are these:

Draw Aradia every day in August

That's it.

There's no set prompts literally I'm just gonna draw Aradia every day.

AND YOU CAN, TOO! #AradiaAugust is the tag I'm gonna establish for this. I just think it would be fun if people other than me also did this so if you tag your art with this, we can all see each others' Aradia drawings!

It may be silly to do this when the first day of the month is almost already over, but unfortunately for all of us I only thought of this idea like several hours ago when I was at work already. So this is what we got!

Hope some of y'all will consider participating :) Happy August!

[not-a-birb]

y’all I have never fallen in love so hard with a horror game before, still wakes the deep is so GOOD. It’s full of heart and meaning and it’s so spooky and chilling. Sorry I know I’ve gushed about it before but I love it so much. Because at the center of the story is love!! And that’s what all good stories have at the center.

Caz wants to go home to his family but he can’t because he’s trying to keep them safe because he loves them! His best friend he tries to keep safe because he loves him!! (do NOT talk to me about Roy’s death it’s so tragic. He didn’t even get killed by the monster, it was entirely preventable. his insulin was just a couple meters away. He could’ve walked but no he couldn’t because the creatures. He was a good man, caz loved him, ye hear??!!!) Caz loved the crew, he tried to save everyone he could! He wanted to save gibbo, (one of the most tragic monsters to me, I think he had most of his mind left but didn’t understand it) I just ahkrhandksjdk. So good. Also the visuals are a whole different post. Ok byeeee I’m gonna go now

[ur-fav-alien]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Starlight Express - Phillips/Stilgoe/Webber Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Electra/Pearl (Starlight Express) Characters: Pearl (Starlight Express), Electra (Starlight Express) Additional Tags: Side characters: - Freeform, Volta (Starlight Express) - Freeform, Wrench (Starlight Express) - Freeform, Fluff, very slight angst just Pearl being self conscious, Romance, Established Relationship, doing each other's makeup (paint... cuz they're trains...), when i was writing this i was envisioning either '84 Electra or Mykal Rand Electra so pick your poison, Pearl is always Miss. Reva to me I adore her. Summary:

Pearl knew that Electra could be dramatic, she practically signed up for it when they started dating. Yet, when a piece of his makeup chips off and he starts to freak out, Pearl could only wonder... what did he think of her?

[adiraofthetals]

On Tumblr For Three Months!

It has been three months since I have joined Tumblr! It has gone by so fast! But you know what time it is! Let's recap that month!

First, I would like to mention @ajtal's fanfic, which he has just finished! It is called Wind Chime! It has 20 chapters in total! If you would like to check out the fic the link is here. You must be a registered ao3 user to read it. Last month in the recap the story had 6 chapters! Can you believe that?? I would like to remind people that his Tumblr has lots of pieces of art and even his own Paul Stamets-centric comic!!

Next, I would like to announce that @weltato has graduated!!! So go tell them congrats!!!!!

Oh, this is really exciting!!! @sadmushroomgoblin or as you better know them as GoblinOfTheWords has just passed 700 Star Trek Discovery FanFics. I can and can't believe it!! The fandom's local crazy fic writer as been going along on their daily posting. We all bow down to Rin!!!!

@mxflowercheck aka Clover has been very excited for the Heartstopper books and have been really hyper fixated on Sherlock as of recently. So there isn't a lot of Discovery news from them.

Last but not least @ashlexzz who made very cool art piece of Mirror!Gray Tal and has been listening to too much of my ramblings of AU's and Crossovers. We have also been making to many jokes about our own states then working on our fic but its fine! Florida memes are the best and I know the good ones.

I have been working on Discovery In Eureka (DISIEU) AU. I have been really busy as of late and I am working on five different WIPs which doesn't help my case. Also working on Character Sheets + other stuff doesn't help either. Also the Great 2024 Tumblr Halloween BOOping happened so that really messed with my notes this time around!

I would also like to mention this because its funny. The election happened but fuck that for right now cause SPIRK IS CANON BITCHES!!!!

[cantheykillmacbeth]

((I love the people who tag my posts with "The Scottish Play." Like. Macbeth Macbeth Macbeth!!! The play Macbeth!!!! Macbeth by William Shakespeare!!!!! Macbeth (not the character)!!!! Get scared get scared get scared!!!!!!!!! Woe sandbag be upon ye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway happy halloween y'all :) Hope you had a good time tonight))

[higherhell]

Assorted stream drawings (Full, Atsushi Sakurai, Ryoichi Endo, Sex George, misc) (September 30, 2024 - Clip Studio Paint)

[rainybraindays]

So I haven't read Eloises book because of a mixture of thinking the concept was boring andbeing a lesbian Eloise truther, but I just fell down a rabbit hole and holy shit Phillip is a terrible person?? Like i thought he was boring from the way people who like him talk about him, but oh my god???