#things on the internet do not bother me

[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

ok this is a controversial opinion but like….. to me, henry spencer was actually not a shit father….. hear me out.

i understand that there’s a lot of subtleties that go into emotionally abusive parents, and i’m not trying to dismiss that, but honestly i just don’t see all the negativity that gets associated with him so often. also, between henry and madeleine, one parent actually seemed to be there when shawn was growing up, and it wasn’t his mother.

let’s look at shawn’s childhood. in all the flashbacks, henry was the one who volunteered at shawn’s school, who took him to movies and was around for all of his new hobbies and interests. he was the one making sure shawn did his homework and hung out with his friends and learned life lessons. granted, some of his teaching methods were not appropriate for a kid shawn’s age, so yes i can see where the criticisms come in and i agree with them. but he was so much more than his mistakes, he was the parent who cared.

when shawn grows up, yes there’s animosity between him and his father but to be quite honest, i’ve never met one person who doesn’t have unresolved daddy issues so that in itself doesn’t condemn henry in my mind. we see how much henry saved from shawn’s childhood and how much he remembers, and to me he actually does quite a bit to help shawn when he needs it. this is particularly telling in comparison to madeleine, who isn’t there to begin with and eventually we find out she really did leave her kid behind, and to me that does a lot more damage than any one thing henry did.

shawn and henry have issues, i won’t argue with that. but i really don’t think henry gets enough credit for the good he did and the way he tried when shawn got older. above all else, he was there and he was there for shawn, and that’s important. god knows it’s not everything, but it’s something.

[tiktowafel]

do you ever think about how all you used to draw when you were 10 was ponies and that you should still know how to do that, then get an idea and proceed to draw something like these in nearly one sitting and it turns out better than any drawing you've done in the entire past month

sooo anyway does anyone have cutie mark or pony name ideas for them?? lol

[cozylittleartblog]

random note about king on that animation, i got really lucky with how simple his animation was and how clean my sketches were to begin with that i was able to do very minimal cleanup on what i had sketched (and add back. his horn. it's supposed to take place just after echoes of the past, Oops) and call it done that way instead of having to redraw the entire thing like i had to on his dad

first sketch > line cleanup > nearly final animation (i'd added slight eye movements last-second but otherwise that's the final)

[lightbulb-warning]

so has anyone figured out WHY there is the Need To Share our Artworks™ or is it just the vibes and our Soul apparently

[moeblob]

New OCs

(briefly, humans and supernatural beings have to team up for building better relations with each other and all the supernaturals can shapeshift and take on human appearances but also have their 'original form'.)

OK so I was GOING to draw fanart today - I had a fun idea and everything! But health anxiety (and anti-anxiety meds) wore me out so I kinda .... slogged through OCs as a treat to me. I am going to go to the doctor tomorrow so HOPEFULLY it's all okay.

[zebedeezing]

Really awful that this even needs to be a thought in my head at all but I’m dreading that if Liam Payne’s death is indeed a suicide, people will make it about ‘cancel culture’ and ‘mob mentality’ and whatever the fuck and dismiss and harass his ex and the women who’ve spoken out about his behaviour recently. Make no mistake regardless this death is shocking and tragic, but the internet is allergic to nuance, feel like its gonna get pissed away, all the allegations made ‘nought’ or excessive or all equates to harassment and bullying. It’s gonna become a talking point about fucking ‘wokeness’. Any victims who’ve stepped forward, they’re gonna hear ‘Didn’t you get your wish? You killed a man’. Jesus Christ.

[sage-is-in-fact-very-tired]

✨️jazz hands✨️ wow I wish I could just I don't know, fucking finish my milk in piece without it all being linked back to me wanting to play on the computer. like yeah guys good association its definitely true for sure guys you're so fucking smart huh, not like I maybe, I dunno know, just wanted to finish my milk and also get things done on the queue. not like thats a thing I could do. nope not at all for sure you're so smart thinking you know everything going on in my brain

[wowitsverycool]

this may be a strange thing to say but ISAT is one of the only places i can accept cutesy found family type things because it just feels like its characters are Like That. its characters are given enough interiority that their twee behavior becomes a character quirk rather than a cliché in my mind. when they express the wide range of emotions and responses that they do, it convinces me that they are authentically representative of a sort-of-internet-poisoned-friendgroup because that's what they are (personality-wise), not because their author doesn't know how to write anything else. they make me almost nostalgic for small friend groups on forums and discord servers i used to have when i was younger. it's comforting, which lends perfectly to the initial atmosphere of acts 1-3, imo.

[pickapea]

my absolutely biggest online pet peeve is US centric people projecting their rich sorority girl bully stereotype of nurses onto everyone else, as if nurses aren't working class and mostly immigrants of colour everywhere else. and when did it become cool to hate on underpaid and exploited workers anyway

[n4rval]

I am reasonably certain I know exactly what post you are referring to. The moment I saw it in the Gaster tag I thought, “hooooo boy I know someone with evidence to the contrary, I wonder if she will see this.��� Your spite is understandable, frankly.

i was hesitant to be spiteful on the internet, but this comforts me immensily 🖤

im not even hoarding any evidence, it's just out there. you don't even have to squint. toby used him to roleplay on twitter.

[naomiknight-17]

Interacted with a blog via one of my side blogs then looked at their DNI and it was several paragraphs like

"If you ship ANYTHING, DNI. If you post NSFW/NSFT in any main tags, DNI. If I think you're problematic in any way DNI"

And they didn't elaborate on the last one

Honey. What does that mean

I'm a big fat loud queer with a history of making NSFW art including stuff some would deem problematic. I don't shy away from politics. How am I supposed to know what you think is problematic? Maybe you're fine with people like me and maybe you're not!?!?

But all you've seen of me is my cat blog so. My cats are not problematic (except when they get into the recycling bin or similar shenanigans) so I guess you're just gonna have to deal with me

[aliceisaperson]

Honestly if I’m being honest I think there’s a massive issue with how we discuss harassment, assault, and other extreme negative behaviors public figures exhibit. Instead of focusing on the victims and survivors of situations we continuously focus the conversation on the people who have done the harm. We need to make the narrative focus on people who had to go through shit because of people. Particularly I think that this is because of internet culture now. It’s essentially turned into a moral purity war especially in fandoms, which is really frustrating. It’s turned into this whole thing where you have to say that ‘if you support or like this person fuck you’ instead of educating people and distancing yourself from those you’ve been educated and still plan to support that person. Also I think we need to learn that not every action a public figure who’s a bad person is going to be negative and you can still appreciate those aspects of that person while acknowledging that they are shitty. I’m not saying support that person but I think people have this idea now a days where every action a public figure who’s a bad person does is bad and malicious and it’s just kind of moral policing instead of discussing the actions that actually do harm. Any the main point is center conversations like this on the victims and their feelings.

[tumblweeds-omegaverse]

so I can't find the post now (I'll reblog it if it pops up again) but somebody in the omegaverse tag was like "what if someone made a setting with, like, all the tropes?" combining ov, soulmates, werewolves, and a lot of other things.

and I thought "wait i don't know some of these that well" and also "okay but what if it's a different fantasy creature than werewolves?"

which has lead me to:

what if omegaverse, but cats instead of wolves?

(i have actually never read warrior cats? how this is possible, as someone who read watership down until the covers fell off, i do not know. so i don't have any social structure inspo yet. but i had this image of head rubs / head butting to scent people, and now i have tabs on tabs of cat behavior. but if they're shifters, would they be carnivores solely in cat form, or also in human form? also no I haven't looked at reproductive stuff yet, too busy with "where are all the cat creatures in myth? why is google trash now?")

what if omegaverse, but mermaids who function like whales?

(this started while looking into animals that tend to offspring that aren't theirs / that invest a lot of time and energy into their offspring. because that's a big element of omegaverse, in my view, despite not being a core trope? like, once you dig into the worldbuilding, a lot of our human concerns and vulnerabilities start coming up, so a species that would share some traits is handy)

really, though, the biggest challenge in attempting the "all the tropes" idea is that soulmate au was included, and I struggle with that one...

like...ignoring all the logistic issues, what kinda world does it become, if the default assumption is that you're in an incomplete or unfulfilled state, until or unless you meet your soulmate? doesn't matter if platonic soulmates are seen as just as meaningful and socially valuable as romantic ones. (tho if you know of things that do that, please give me the name, I wanna read/watch it!) what does it do to a person to spend their entire life waiting for someone to fill the hole in their very selves, not knowing if they'll ever show up? what does that expectation cause?

yeah yeah, i know, true mates shouldn't be more of a stretch than feline werewolves or undersea omegaverse society, but somehow it is??

anyway - omegaverse but not canines! honestly I kinda wonder how far it can go, like could amphibians work? lizards? solitary hunters? birds?

[goldkirk]

as I'm going back over my past history and items and journals and years, I come across all sorts of things, like the pencil I saved from that so-precious memory from second grade, and a pair of flip flops I've been missing for two years, and [checks notes] the modern-high-school-AU-kidnapped-by-a-serial-killer story I wrote in late high school jdfsjdfsjkjlksfd

[wickershells]

not everyone feigns sincerity

[gu6chan]

saw a post on twitter that reminded me about the existence of that whole scp thing and i, knowing literally nothing about it and had never even seen a thing of it before now thought "you know what? i always said id take a peek at it but never did, maybe i should do that now" and the first story i read was,,, okay (REALLY fell apart at the end but the first half was alright) but had a REALLY cool concept and the second one was actually pretty funny but i saw someone mention one and i read it and it started out kinda??? ??? But very quickly became the most INTRIGUING story ever until like it started kinda having too many threads to where i was like "okay, this is getting a little absurd" but pressed on bc even if i was kinda growing skeptical as to the QUALITY of the payoff just thinking about how it could all come together at all had me so curious like i HAD to see how they would pull this off so i got to the last chapter and it turns out the whole fucking point of the story was to lure you in and string you along with several barely-related horror threads so you would trigger the thing at the end to "kill" you (AKA get jumpscared) and ladies and gentlemen ive just been sitting here seething for the past 20 minutes. there was no payoff. there's nothing. all of that was for nothing. my excitement, gone instantly like the last time i felt disappointment like this was when i played nier 😭