#or rather self insert art but idc

[isa-meme-lol]

New art alert :0

So yeah I don’t have much to say about this artwork other than I had some fun doing this one, plus this was my chance to experiment with this artstyle and different poses.

Fun fact: I decided to have this drawing match with a drawing here that was made by my friend, Calvin :]

https://www.tumblr.com/plasmagruntcalvin/718658541625507840/blacklight-brainwashing

Anyway, hope ya like this artwork.

[cosmitasia]

The more I think about it the more I've started to take issue with the common phenomenon of making fanart "more diverse". Let me explain why.

It's a centralization and profit issue, where people continue to engage with whatever art gets mainstream attention and floats to the top, and much of it is not diverse, because much of society is bigoted on some level, so it's more profitable that way.

Then more progressive fans just diversify it in their fandom bubble, which is just a band aid solution? It's not doing anything wrong, but I think it makes people a little too okay with media that doesn't even try in the first place. A whole cast of skinny #FFFFFF skin toned and same faced people, with maybe a couple token brown/black characters scattered about? I'll just make my fanart have more body types and skin tones then!

I still welcome "diversifying" fanart. It's harmless fun on the fan's end. The sad part is people keep doing all of the legwork themselves for a piece of art that didn't consider their traits worth depicting. I'd rather people seek out the artwork that was made with them in mind to begin with, so they don't need to diversify it in the first place.

[lukes-curls]

finished rooney’s intermezzo this morning. WOW. i adore the way she wrote it (i said what i said) idc if it’s controversial. the experimental prose, short sentence, lack of punctuation marks appeals to the brainrot part of my brain that reads and consumes in this hungry, relentless way. i have always been a rather insatiable, quick reader but i devoured this novel like i had been starving before. pages consumed with bad table manners— chewing with my mouth open, licking my fingers afterwards.

and oh my god the people in this piece. as the certified little sister (acknowledge your privilege, little girl!) i felt so much reading this. the strange disappointment that goes unsaid. the strange love that goes unsaid. knowing your siblings did the best they could when ur parents inevitably grow tired of being a parent and perhaps marriage breaks down or someone simply checks out (parenting is hard) so your siblings (who probably resent you a bit in theory for being little) in all their three/ten/thirteen (true story) years more on this earth take to protecting you. that felt rather self-insert oops. knowing said effort and love and care does not mean they are unflawed (yes, i’m talking about peter telling ivan he had the pup sorted when he did not in fact have the pup sorted and so it fell into ivan’s lap thank god and he handled it out without any acknowledgment or thanks because peter was ‘handling’ it and so he did (it was SO much more than a dog)). i’m also talking about the weird entitlement they feel over you. your achievements are indirectly theirs, too, because without them you would have never picked up chess or gotten good at something. and the strange guilt they feel for abandoning their little sibling in the house they have a new reprieve from. and i pity those who don’t get to experience the sibling dynamic; those who don’t know what it’s like. there’s so much there.

also can we talk about the women in this book? i love margaret and i love annie and i love sylvia and i love naomi and i adore them all together though i will admit that there were times i grew incredibly frustrated to the point my cheeks got hot because they really need to simply stand up sometimes. like STAND UP! but that’s to be expected. also it did take me a while to get used to them being perceived by men; their limits assumed, their softness assumed, their vulnerability assumed (which is flawlessly executed by sally, oh my goodness). i love the unconventionality imposed by naomi and sylvia loving one man. i love how much peter loves women. everytime i felt emotionally about an event in the book (i had to walk away when peter hadn’t exactly told his girlfriends what was going on and he was cheating on them (call a shovel a shovel) until it was like overtly acknowledged and established by them all that it was a poly situation happening but this also rubbed me the wrong way a bit because why does peter need to have his sexual desires met (i’m talking about being bossy with naomi and sweet with sylvia) and his emotional or domestic desires met simultaneously like this man really got the best of both worlds and this made me upset cause he’s literally a man but i think this is my own issues. to circle back to my point— i would have these big feelings about what should be happening and then something would occur and i would see more of what was really going on and it suddenly mattered less that peter was getting the best of both worlds because sylvia and naomi understood perfectly well what was going on. idk i guess what i mean is i felt this initial impulse to feel a certain way which was soon corrected by me experiencing the narrative, peeling back that layer and that’s a lot like life i guess. that is what sally is so good at doing. writing something that is so much like life.

and the way sally structurally screams ‘art is just a pastiche of everything an artist loves’ or whatever they say (let’s sort it out on the remix) by putting the direct excerpts she stole (endearingly) at the end— bits and pieces even the smartest kid couldn’t pick apart with absolute certainty without some sort of external help. the fact these external pieces blend so seamlessly just proves her point. and i want to mention the length. the stream of consciousness. the hypocrisy. emphasis on catholic guilt. there is so much packed into this little novel. it is so much more than a silly little read though even if that is the idea you walk away with then you’re also so right?

anyways these are my initial silly thoughts, there are lots more but this is a long ass post. pls talk to me about it. i can’t wait to check the tag without fearing i am spoiling anything 🍽️

[antiloreolympus]

3 Anti LO Asks

1. Honestly as a fan i hate how other fans treat criticisms. You can’t say shit “hey the age gap is a little weird” “BUT SHES LEGAL” “the art right here looks bad” “ITS JUST HER ART STYLE” “this part right here is inaccurate to the myths” “ITS A RETELLING”. It gets really annoying heck one time i said that i wish that the buildings in LO like modern Greece buildings rather then New York but then one guy said “we’ll if she did that she might alienate most of her audience” :|

(Sorry for the bad English its my third language) 

2. That’s what is so aggravating. Rachel lied she wouldn’t include SA in LO because duh, a lot of people who enjoy HxP don’t want to see that, and were happy they weren’t going to be subjected to it, but then with only a flimsy “warning”, subjected millions of readers to a non-properly warned, tactless onscreen r*pe, and proceeded to make the fallout about how mean people, as in actual victims who were triggered by the whole thing, were the real mean people to HER and how she speaks for all victims so they should leave her alone. More so, she literally ignored the entire plot for years, and is now just speed running her own MC’s recovery via a single therapy session to make her now be totally cool with sex and potentially having babies only two weeks after literal assault. To act like Smythe is this voice for all the victims of the world and women in general is absolutely disingenuous, and sells short how deeply complicated and diverse the actual struggle is, and how no one person can speak for us all. To pin Rachel and her pretentious self insert FanFiction as complex feminist literature despite it promoting deeply conservative, cruel ideals as good and quite literally exists to excuse to and romanticize one of the most famous mythology r*pists ever is just insulting to say the least.

3. LMAOOOO im so glad im not the only one who thinks lo hades isnt hot. idc if thats what rachel is into but cmon, most LO readers are like 12 - 20ish and you mean to tell me they like that too? unlikely. also mads mikkelsen is a man who is married to a woman OLDER than him (five+ years!) so even the man rachel designed hades off of would not like this relationship. if a grown ass man can only relate and date someone as young & immature to be his own daughter, hes not sexy or cute, he's creepy 😒