#this goes for a lot of things

[cornkernelle]

One of the biggest things Im afraid of whilst making fanart (whether it be for individual artists or for public media) is the possibility that I mischaracterize/misrepresent their creations so horribly that I offend the creator or/and lose the appeal of what made the concept interesting in the first place.

I was once an avid fan of Undertale (still like it, just not involved in the story as much) back when I was still starting to make art. I still often think back on the stuff I made and I physically recoil because of how poorly I wrote them. Even if I’ve bettered my comprehension a little now, I still get nervous about it. How can I share my love for a creation without tarnishing its initial wonder? How do I contribute to something that’s already so amazing? It stumps me.

[officialish-cdc]

Being disrespectful counts as hurting people btw.

"it's not hurting anyone" yes it is???

[explode-this]

From Steven Slate of the Clean Slate and The Freedom Model: "I am not trying to convince anyone that they should drink moderately. I realized a few years back that the fact that people react as if I’m saying they “should” moderate, when in fact I am only saying that they are “capable” of moderate drinking, says a lot about what the recovery culture has done to them. I could say that I am capable of jumping off a bridge, but that certainly isn’t the same as saying I should jump off a bridge. Get it? To say that you can is not to say that you should.

The reason that “recovering addicts/alcoholics” interpret it as a should/recommendation to drink moderately is because the recovery culture approach is based entirely on “I can’t.” The recovery approach is one of self-deprivation, and belief in a handicap. In the recovery culture, the perceived benefits of substance use are left almost entirely unquestioned. On day one, you have to “admit you are powerless” – i.e. convince yourself that you are not in control of your substance use – and then hope for a miracle to remove your desire while you then proceed to fight your desire “one day at a time.” You try to arrange the world so that you won’t be tempted by drugs or alcohol, so that you won’t be triggered, so that you won’t get hungry, angry, lonely, or tired, and succumb to your desire.

So the desire is taken for granted as a constant from day one in the recovery culture, and you never critically examine where that desire comes from. You never re-evaluate whether your drug of choice is really “the only thing that makes me feel comfortable in my own skin” or whatever special powers you think it has. You just live your life thinking that being drunk or high is just the bees knees, and that it sucks that you can’t have it because your not a normie and you’ll lose control if you have any.

In the recovery culture, as I said, it’s all about self-deprivation, “I can’t”, resisting, arranging the world to nudge you away from substances, etc. It’s hilarious – they say it has nothing to do with willpower, but the whole thing is willpower based – trying to resist that first drink or hit. It sucks, which is why so many people fall apart repeatedly in the world of recovery.

The other way is to know that you are in control, and that you’ve been doing what you want, based on how valuable you think substances are to you, and to rethink whether it really relieves your stress, or whether you need it to socialize, or whether it really is all that pleasurable. When you change these opinions, your desire for substance use lessens or goes away completely. When you cease to feel you “need” it, it becomes incredibly easy to take it or leave it.

However, if you hold on to loss-of-control/addiction mythology, that garbage mentally blocks the way to any of this discovery. You’re too busy trying to scare yourself away from the first drink or hit to outgrow your old fascination with excessive substance use."

(comment section of this post, Feb 26 2011)

[sureuncertainty]

Thinking about the way people in certain communities are obsessed with fakeclaiming, whether that's systems, autistics, disabled people, queer/trans people or whatnot and how there are definitely a lot more people who are faking being cis or being singlet or being abled than the other way around and those are the fakers we should probably be caring about

[blackbatest]

my most controversial batman opinion to date

[wanologic]

💅💅💅

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[sea-beam]

you could've been mine🌷

[keferon]

Did you think I was done? Ahahahaha no, I have more.

Because chapter 70 of MOMU gave me the very dynamic between them that I missed so much, I just blacked out and started drawing uncontrollably lmao

Also. ALSO. I noticed a while ago that Prowl has the habit of..like…constantly frowning. So. I did a bit of research and made this graph.

In 70 chapters, Prowl frowns rougly 104 times. And the intensity of this gesture is very clearly correlated with the development of his relationship with Jazz, as you can see ahahahahah It might be wrong tho don’t take me seriously I’m not good with graphs

[bookalicent]

yeah so this was insane

[undertalethingems]

Unexpected Guests Chapter Ten, Act Two: Page 18

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What can be done when the one power you knew you had has been taken away...? It can be hard relying solely on your friends and family, but that's all Frisk can seem to do...

Stay tuned for the next update, hopefully going up July 25th!

[yeehawpim]

Beedle & Goodfellow

Goodfellow is a warforged barbarian dnd character I want to use if I ever get to play someday. Figured I'd draw his backstory even if I never do 😊

[freakcliff]

many things about the chronicles of Narnia made me irrevocably insane at the small age of six years old but one of the big ones was the bit in prince Caspian where caspian blows susan's horn to try and summon help and it summons the pevensie kids like. that's crazy ok. that's insane. imagine at 12 years old you're given a horn thats purpose is basically summoning divine intervention & then years later someone blows it and summons YOU . I'm crazy !

[nibbelraz]

You don't understand how much I actually love you shang siblings au!

And it's funny that all it took for og!sqh to survive is a little sibling. Just, "you wouldn't kill a guy who's also a father, would you my king?"

If someone kidnapped airplane, how would og sqh react?

Ah I'm so glad you do!!! They're so cute like a wide eyed little airplane going around the world spouting the most nonsensical things known to man while also saying some things absolutely NO ONE knows but iy somehow is true??? All while the OG dots on his weird little brother, who he would do anything for, anything.

Of course he'll get you that double chocolate chip ice cream, once he can find it. Also Airplane talking about all the games he used to play so OG the master of lying is just guessing on what they are

"Playing Minecraft" is going outside to dig holes and chop some things

[fennethianell]

As promised, a bunch of sketches I did in free time. Obsessed is an understatement.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

found those sketches I mentioned. and added more