#this obviously isn't aimed at any of my mutuals or followers

[cyaerandom]

FAQ

Do not interact with this account if you're a minor.

I highly recommend not following me at @cyaerandom, because it's a personal account. If you like what I draw, please consider my art blog instead. I will reblog any scribbles I post here.

ART BLOG @cerberusmahou I draw whatever and this can change any day. Take this into consideration before following. Mute #riya reblog for art only and check the other stuff I'm into to curate your space. Alternatively, you can install XKit and turn on the feature Show Originals. Art only tag Scribbles tag (cw: suggestive content) Ask me anything, or give me ideas to draw! Unless specified otherwise, I don't take art requests. However, I'm always on the lookout for inspiration, happy to read about your headcanons and talk about our mutual interests. As a general rule expect me to reply by text, but if any prompt gets my brain gears turning, I may draw it.

🌈M/F ATLA. A discord group for LGBT+ adults who enjoy or create straight ships content and want to meet people similar to them!

All joining members must be 20+ years old. Mlm/wlw is obviously allowed and welcomed, but not our focal theme.

Can I use your art as icon and/or for rp? Sure, I'll be honored.

Can I repost your art? Send me a message first, please.

Can I tag headcanons in your art? Of course, I love reading them.

How did you add music to your blog? Wikplayer & CommonNinja.

Which program do you use to draw? Paint Tool SAI.

Which brush do you use for drawing? It's a custom, here's the settings. However, I recommend sketching on a hard brush and using this only for inking or doing a more refined sketch.

Any anatomy book you recommend? Figure drawing by Kan Muftic and Morpho collection by Michel Lauricella.

Could you share your art style inspiration? Here.

Any tips for dynamism? Besides checking on art tutorials (dynamism and gesture drawing), I'd say studying the principles of 2D animation, paying attention to real people's body language, and watching animation compilations from great artists like Richard Williams, Milt Halt, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Yutaka Nakamura, etc. I tend to tag animation gifs I go across and like, feel free to use it as reference library, if it's helpful for you.

Are you open to collabs? If I follow you or you're a writer whose fics I comment, I will most likely be interested. Message me and we can talk, no compromise for either of us.

Why am I blocked? Nothing personal. You probably talk about discourse non-stop, don't follow proper fandom etiquette or were caught up in a blockchain I used. I want to see specific content, so I curate my spaces. Please, message me if you'd like to be unblocked.

We are mutuals and I appreciate you, but your blog isn't for me anymore. Unfollow me, I'd never take it personally. You have to cater your social media to your own tastes and whatever makes you happy. We can interact in other spaces anytime.

I'd like to follow you, but my moral and political beliefs don't align with yours. Is that a problem? As long as you're an adult, feel free. I don't intend to live in an echo chamber and I aim to learn about other realities.

I mainly draw m/f, but I talk and draw about gender and sexuality in a very fluid way. Sometimes seriously, sometimes as a joke. If you need characters and ships to be gender-conforming to a fault, my account is not for you.

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Do you take commissions? Yes, here's my carrd. Adults only. Do you have Patreon? Yes, here's the link. Once again, adults only.

Check my former pinned post and appreciate this beautiful fanart of my wife and her husband.

[vanillahub]

Please read!

Edit 1: You don't need to follow the hub*, but that'd be very helpful for me to check if we're still mutuals or not. Just please, make sure you're following at least one of the RP side blogs, and not just the hub.

*Addendum: If you use the "disable comments from people you don't follow" feature, then I ask you kindly to follow the hub and not just the RP side-blog. Because it prevents me from commenting on your posts, since the comment is coming from this blog rather than the side one. Failing to do this heavily affects the way I can engage with you and your blog/muses.

If I've followed you, it is for one of these blogs:

@galaccias - Star wars Multimuse (Not following new SW mutuals)

@healbellls - Pokemon Multimuse

@hxdrostorms - In limbo rn will be reworked into a Castlevania one

@santuxrio - Saint Seiya Multimuse

As of the 25th of February 2024, I've been prioritizing Discord RP over Tumblr.

Interested in Discord RP? Check out @vanirpads

In light of a new awfull trend across the RPC: I don't send any anonymous messages ever. If you receive any form of hateful message with my name attached, ignore and delete it. Without a doubt, it is someone looking to impersonate me, in hopes of sparking controversy. It is a shame this has to be addressed.

Rules highlights:

I'm a big supporter of 'tag & curate your online experience', 'ship and let ship', 'don't like don't read' (Dead dove don't eat), 'fiction can affect reality, but it will never be that', 'shipping/fandom isn't activism'. If you have any issues with these things, then this blog might not be for you.

I do send in passwords/anything that the mun requires, to let them know I have read their rules. But, unless specified, I'll only do that AFTER being followed back. Because I don't wish to make it seem like I'm "pressuring" them to follow/interact with me.

I reserve the right to unfollow and block anyone, I don’t owe an explanation for doing so. Do not evade it, nor send people after me in an attempt to score an answer for you. If you find out you’ve been blocked by me, move on like any other person would.

The same goes out to anyone following me, who wishes to break mutuals with! Block and unfollow to your heart’s content, IDC what you do in order to feel well. I’d much prefer being softblocked, so I don’t end up sending prompts or interacting with your posts/blog, without realising we no longer were mutuals.

Anonymous messages are permanently turned off.

There’s no pressure when it comes to interacting with my muses. As in, if you’re only looking to interact with one out of all the other options? I’m cool with that. The choice is yours, I’ll obviously try to offer as many as I can see fit for us. But I’ll never force anything upon anyone. And on that note: All I ask in return is to respect my grading system for muses (primary, secondary & tertiary/friends only stuff)! As mentioned in the directories, while I don’t mind HC asks aimed at those tertiary muses. Interactions and plots are reserved only for my long-time partners or friends!

Reblog karma is in effect, if I reblog a prompt from you I will send in something back. And I expect the same from you, if you do nothing but reblog memes directly from me without sending anything back, you will be blocked. I have a tolerance when it comes to mutuals, I’ll contact you to stop with it. However, I have zero tolerance for non-mutuals.  

I am NOT fictionkin nor self-insert friendly, I’ve had way too many bad run ins with them, and I want nothing to do with them! Mun =/= Muse, if you can’t understand that concept then leave. I’m NOT my muses, and I’m not here to judge anyone, but I'm also not here to fulfill anyone’s fantasies like that.

Non-mutuals: please refrain from sending prompts that have been  specifically tagged/marked as ‘mutuals’. They have been marked in such  way, for a reason. I get you may want to draw my attention to your blog,  however, that’s not the way to go about it (If you do this, I’ll likely  take it as an attempt to brute force your way into my boundaries. DMing  me is a whole lot better.). I take a while to follow people back, you can find more info in regards to  what I look into people’s blogs & take into consideration before  following back in my rules.   

I’m strongly against the idea of “if we’re mutuals, then we’re immediately friends!” (as it promotes an unhealthy sense of overfamiliarity, and it has put me in awkward situations in the past). So please, don’t go around calling me a friend, unless we’ve known each other and have been in constant contact for quite some time. It’s nothing against anyone, that’s just how I roll.

On following: If I don’t get followed back in my actual rp blogs after an week or so, I’ll take that as the person’s way of saying they aren’t interested and I’ll unfollow & softblock if they only followed the hub! Of course, I may contact the person in case they have already answered to my asks or other things.

If you’re someone who keeps adding new muses every other day, or is always making new blogs and quickly abandoning old ones (aka drifters or blog-hoppers). Then, it’s very unlikely we will mesh well as writing partners. It’s nothing personal, but this sort of thing doesn’t work well with me. I need rping partners, who wish to stick around for the long run. I can’t and won’t keep up with muns, who are always doing those things and clearly have other things in mind for RPing.

I don't have access to the Legacy editor only the new beta one. I'm using the new XKit trim posts, for my RP responses.

[cephiedvariable]

Ethical Consumption of Woobie Villains Under Late Stage Capitalism

*cracks open the cellar door and crawls out of the shadows*

Hi, I want to talk about a very delicate, complex and startlingly revolutionary topic today. 

Is it ethically permissible to like villains and write fic about them crying pretty and getting fucked? Hmmm. Hard to say. Doing so might make you a problematic person. Wow, this really is the great moral question of our times, isn't it?

(It's not, actually.)

So yeah, of course it's ethically permissible to like villains, and the fact that there is discourse in both fandom and mainstream media crit reminding us constantly that: "Something You Might Have Missed In The Newest Disney Franchise Movie: The Bad Guys Are Bad And The Good Guys Are Good, A Startlingly Revolutionary And Feminist Narrative!" is deeply discouraging to me as a writer, as a consumer of media, as a human being with the ability to observe, absorb and synthesize information.

It seems like there is far more focus right now on looking directly at what characters say and do as a method to extract substance from a text without asking what it means that they say and do those things, and what the author is trying to accomplish or make you think by making the characters say and do those things.

That is to say, people are looking at what the text """says""", not what is says.

This is probably a natural result of what I'm gonna flippantly refer to as the "YA-ification" of mainstream media, that is: the rise of dominant nerd culture and "identity" being exploited by capitalism in concert with massive campaigns of media conglomeration creating a situation in which popular media is becoming increasingly homogenized and "safe".

But I don't really want to talk about that directly. I want to talk about why I think specifically Villain Discourse(tm) is a prime symptom of this and why I think it's a good example to show the problem with viewing pop culture through this kind of lens.

So, like, when "Media Consumption = Identity" hits fandom, it gains another dimension, which is the link of media consumption to personal morality. We've seen a profane marriage between these two laterally related concepts over the last few yeas that has broken down into smaller and smaller battlefields until it's no longer just about what shows you watch, it's about what characters you like in the shows. Good pure fans like "Hero Character", bad impure fans like "Villain Character".

Captain America is "good". He's a "cinnamon roll", a "non-toxic male", a "golden retriever", a "soft pure hero", a "feminist friendly hero". Loki is bad and greasy and a Villain and Silly Fangirls Need To Understand He's Bad. Every time a male hero doesn't, idk, explicitly call his female co-star misogynistic slurs, fandom and nerd media fall over themselves to act like it's the most Important Story Ever Told and it's an incredibly pressing issue to make sure everyone understands that the people who oppose the hero are Not Good, because the fans out there drawing fanart of the bad guy must not have gotten the message!

My problem here is that this kind of criticism is explicitly buying into the moral and political framework of a story, rather than viewing the story through your *own* moral framework and synthesizing it in a meaningful way. It limits analysis to playing by the rules that these $300 million blockbusters want you to play by.

For example, the idea that Captain America as presented in the MCU (or any character in big, colourful PG rated popcorn flick for that matter) is a new, revolutionary, un-problematic kind of hero is how we saw so many people unblinkingly and uncritically swallow 'The Winter Soldier' as some politically rebellious masterstroke of leftist defiance when it was actually a very careful, very safe, very neoliberal script that took tepid aim at something everyone agrees is bad (the Patriot Act) without offering any substantial commentary or praxis and while *still* stroking off American exceptionalism and perpetuating the inherently reactionary message of superhero vigilantism. 

That's my take at least. So why should I accept that people who like Steve Rogers are "better" and "more moral" than people who like [hot villain of the week], when I think that the entire thematic foundation of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is suspect and against my personal politics?

I'm not saying 'The Winter Soldier' is bad and you're bad for liking it, I'm saying that I think the conversation we had about it as a culture was exactly the conversation Disney wanted us to have about it. The idea that these are "important" statements, that these black & white, a-thematic stories told in broad strokes across multi-million dollar canvasses are meaningful moral constructs is what Disney and similar companies want you to think. Literally NO ONE needs to be *told* who the Good Guys are and who the Bad Guys are in a PG rated mainstream franchise. 

You can, and should, glean real life context and messages from even simplistic narratives, but that kind of analysis needs to be applied outside the Good Guy/Bad Guy paradigm of the text itself. Yeah, sure, there's something to be said about Kylo Ren's arc in light of how young men are being radicalized by extremist movements targeting their loneliness and emotional instability, but that interpretation existing doesnt mean that people who like him better than the heroes are stupid. They aren't being tricked or duped, they aren't morally suspect and they aren't committing an act of irresponsible text misinterpretation on the level of, say, not realizing that Humbert Humbert is a monster. 

Not all fiction is a morality tale, and not all fiction SHOULD be a morality tale and not all people should be obligated to react to morality tales the way the morality tale wants to be reacted to 100% of the time. Treating morality tales  as these earth-shattering, profound commentaries that must be obeyed absolutely and drawing lines regarding personal integrity based on whether people like Good Space Wizards or Evil Space Wizards is creating a critical atmosphere in which the "good" being presented to us isn't being questioned at all.

And that, imo, is way, waaaay more alarming than people on the internet writing ship fics about Kylo Ren's big wibbly lips.

[teebarnes]

Oh! again, I really agree with what you're saying here.

Make 👏🏼it 👏🏼make 👏🏼sense.

I mean some of my fics have real great reach, and I do my best to interact with everyone who either comments or reblogs my posts. Like you said, it's not that we are thankful for all the interaction we receive, we are extremely thankful for it.

We just don't have that same interaction that other's get. And again, some of the big bloggers will barely post and it have over 500+ notes or more. Also with bloggers reposting their mutuals posts that have a shit tone of notes, regardless, old or new. Now that isn't a bad thing, because obviously it isn't. Also with the demands or more chapters or more fics, like people do demand and then when you post it, those same people won't share, reblog or comment to show their support to writers who wrote it specifically under demands.

Personally, I am not one of those writers because I just write and post my own lol. But I've seen it happen a lot. Hence, why I am always on the search for new writers or new fics to support. It feels nice when people do that sort of stuff, supporting one another. Also adding that, no matter how much one fic writer interacts, it barely makes a difference :((

BUT, we have writers who could have written one of the best stories and haven't gotten the reach they deserve. Which sucks! You'll have the big bloggers who write just as similar ideas as the smaller ones and see then get more notes. I hate saying it too, however, there are those bloggers who are a bit too proud to repost or support someone outside of their little community, a little goes a long way and it sucks that when bloggers say that they love to support... they just don't do it. (if that makes any sense?!?!) I mean, I have barely seen it on Tumblr, but it's still there.

This in no way is dissing big bloggers! We understand, well I mean... I vaguely understand the popularity part of it all lol. But it feels nice when people notice your content, and when you're a blogger who doesn't have that many followers as the others, it does mean a lot.

Likewise, it isn't aimed at anyone in particular, it's just a thing that has been happening recently.

I wrote a bit more than I planned...

Maybe the fandom just slow on people posting and writing stories

Lmao other blogs are getting 700+ notes every day, so no, it's not the fandom.

Can't help it, ig. Still, I would like to see someone else's avatar in my reblog list rather than my own. It's kinda tiresome and demotivating that the last three things I put out barely has some 200 notes, out of which I am sure 100 are my own.

People are being vv selective with their reblogs and saving it for the "big" blogs.

The funny thing is that people have no problem demanding for the next chapter of my two series' (which i'm cool with), but when I do post, it's like barely anyone reads it.

So what's the point? I am writing for myself, sure, but I am also putting myself out there for scrutiny for a lot of people. I am vulnerable and with my anxiety, scared of even publishing stuff.

Idk man, seems kinda weird.

[cityofostwick]

unpopular opinion, probably: I’m not a fan of when people in the dragon age fandom use the choices they make in-game and their support for certain characters as...some kind of political identifier? when people declare themselves ‘anti-chantry’ and say ‘don’t follow me if you didn’t think anders was right and are pro-oppression’. Like, I get it - these games don’t exist in a vacuum (there are definitely real world analogies/resemblances), but thedas also exists in an entirely different context to our OWN world (magic ain’t real, folks) and using a fictional world and fictional characters to.. I guess exert yourself over players who made different choices and like different characters is pretty shitty and in no way affects your moral standing and your actions in real life...no one suffering in the real world is going to care that you freed the mages in inquisition or that you want cullen fans to know just how bad a character he is. It’s putting too much personal stock into a narrative, and that’s pretty rich coming from me, as anyone who knows me would be quick to say - I get obsessed with the games i play. i gobble that shit down. and i want ppl to enjoy themselves in fandom but when you start putting fictional injustices and the opinions of characters on the same level as real ppl that’s when i think it gets unhealthy. 

(for the record this is coming from someone who pretty much always helps mages and loves pretty much ALL dragon age characters - I’m just tired of ppl using the personal choices within a GAME as a soapbox to declare themselves the wokest in all the land) 

idk your blog your rules just pls be aware of the fact that ppl will always enjoy and interpret the games differently than you do, and that’s ok