#theyre out there

[willshaper]

Somewhere out there exists kal and szeth's whacky road trip.... I need it....

[slaughtergutz]

So did you know that Arlong has two sausages?

Oh yes I have posted about it before lmao

[hexxingcode]

hi I just found your blog and I got a few things to say

first off, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SO COOL ALL THE ART IS SO GOOD THE LINES ARE SO SICK THE COLORS ARE SO VIBRANT THE NARRATIVES THAT YOU WRITE ARE SO COOL AND AWESOME YOURE AWESOME LES GOOOOOOOO

second off, your cool

DRINK WATER AND HAVE A GOOD DAY

OH did i NEVER respond to this. WHOOPS. SORRY I LIKED IT SO MUCH I WANTED TO JUST LOOK AT IT AGAIN FROM TIME TO TIME. AND I. FORGOT TO ANSWER THIS ASK. my bad. but thank you so much, i try incredibly hard all the time.

and yeah my cool is off the charts

drinking water as we speak. good day to you as well

[nightfurmoon]

Hold on..what if there’s people who can’t watch Villainous on MAX?

Unfortunately there's no 'legal' way to watch 'em other than Max right now :( You can use a VPN and create a temp account in the US/Latam platform

[monsoon-of-art]

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[saturnisfallingdown]

girl who wont shut up about how she "loves a man in uniform" but as she keeps talking it becomes clear she's talking about butches in customer service jobs

[eldritchmochi]

friend, i get where youre coming from entirely. im writing some of the more popular fics in my fandom and while i genuinely love how many people message me or comment about how much it means to them, it doesnt really have the community experience of art youre talking about that's so satisfying

but i embroider also, and i cook, and i wear loud outfits, and i often take pictures of all that too, but its art that i rarely end up posting online. its stuff i do for fun that i find rewarding to do, but i embroider on my work breaks and tend to have coworkers compliment me on being "so good" at it (im not lol). i share pictures of what i cook with the group chat, who share pics of what they cook too, and we swap recipes. i get a lot of weird looks when im out and about all dressed up, but i also get a lot of people who come ask me about what im wearing

i have friends over to "stitch and bitch" (mostly bitch, i am very distractible) and we swap supplies and show off what were working on and talk about plans for our next projects, and they keep an eye out for things i need for xyz project while shopping for supplies and i do the same for them

i have a lot of food allergies so i have to cook a lot of my food from scratch, and i have friends with similar issues, so well get together and do afternoons where we batch cook like six, seven dishes to freeze portions to take some of the burden of cooking constantly off each other

im a member of my local community for one of the niche fashions I wear, and i have a tub of cast offs from my wardrobe I collect over the year that i bring to my areas local goth clothing swap every summer. ive had several jobs where the morning routine involved coworkers coming to my desk or office to see my outfit of the day, and ive had several people on bus routes i take or shops i regularly go to tell me theyre always excited to see me because i bring a smile to their face with the weird nonsense im wearing

a local bookstore where im at hosts bring your own project craft nights as well as "classes" on making absurd, goofy art out of like, pipe cleaners and googly eyes. there's been an uptick of what ive been calling guerilla art markets where one of my local artists makes a post about how theyre going to be at x park on this day with a blanket and merch, spread the word and bring your own set up. one of my theatre gay friends mentioned missing performing and i told them id kill for a shitty theatre troup that did no budget performance pop ups in parks. i follow this insta page that does nothing but post flyers for local underground punk shows and several instas for local art markets and a good handful of burlesque dancers and drag performers and djs. i have signed up to get emails from the bulk of local music venues and i open them for anything interesting coming thru on tour

and i go to things. even if i dont have a ton of money, if i have the time, i go, and i talk to people, i take cards, i buy stuff i like when i can, i ask about their upcoming shows. i tell my friends about them, and the fun things hosted at my local bookstores. i have friends who always have sticker slaps in their pockets for local bands or small artists. like half of my tshirts are from tiny artists, local or not, and if you ask me on the street about it i will talk your ear off for several minutes about the artist and give you your choice of their socials. same with the patches and pins on my vest

art is very much a community and you are so right op that the age of the internet has replaced a ton of it with faceless "engagement" stats and we should be so so angry

so: go find your local community. if it doesnt exist, make it. host something, even just in your living room with a couple of friends

show up

"immoral" "self-destructive" opinion or whatever but making art for no one fucking sucks shit

[mausolealdrift]

its baffling seeing people on here being all shocked about how other ppl didnt have sex or do drugs or drink or go to parties etc etc in high schools like. sorry i was too busy getting bullied to do all of that stuff i guess. why are you surprised that there’s losers on the cringe loser website

[lemongogo]

life of regret

[causalityparadoxes]

He's a bounty hunter. He's into DnD. He somehow doesn't know about cosplay or how to improv despite this. He CAN dance. He fell for the Doctor so hard the only coherent thought in his head under stress was proposing to them. Within the hour he'd kissed them, sacrificed himself, and said "find me" after making them catch a goddamn marriage bouquet. He's a nerd. He's socially awkward. He listens to Kylie Minogue. He's a sweetheart. He's a Killer. He's engaged to the Doctor. He is the moment. He is the Rogue.

[piosplayhouse]

14 year olds shipping discourse is inbreeding with itself to make the discourse equivalent of a brachycephalic bulldog at this point. They're inventing new extremely vague moral purity categories at a rate nearly equivalent to the Mormon church

* For the record btw a paraphilia by definition is just any sexual desire classed as "unusual" by the dsm, which can include anything from apparently getting horny about imagining yourself as a vampire (?) to being attracted to fictional characters, to being attracted to trans people. It's not an issue unless it has the capacity to cause real harm to yourself or others, at which point it becomes a paraphilic disorder

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

[foolsocracy]

put dick on a team and trust he will make sure they can perform as an acrobat troop

[time-woods]

oh that same old familiar tune, where have i heard it before?

oh, right with you.

this took me a little while to complete- the uncompressed file size ended up being 101mb. . . beeeg file,