#unfortunately I am a dumbass.

[phantomoftheorpheum]

James: I am going to war with Ruby; I will destroy her.

Ruby: Hey, sorry I said some mean stuff to you.

James: -immediately caves like he has the structural integrity of a slice of Swiss cheese.-

[hostilemuppet]

wild how a woman can be the protagonist of the majority of the movies and television shows in a franchise and then just get shunted to the side, often without malice, by people who consider themselves fans of the property. i'm talking about poppy but this is a wider problem of insidious fandom misogyny.

i talk a lot about fandom misogyny and male favouritism but it is... so much more egregious in trolls bc of how the protagonist is a woman and the franchise seems mostly targeted to little girls. its like if the mlp fandom zeroed in on, like, raritys dad. or shining armour. or fluttershys brother

[liminal-roses]

1 of May was Oda Day!! so here's a lil compilation of Oda and her flute (which was basically my introduction to her)

[criticalrolo]

oh NO i drank this whole big thing of mikes harder lemonade to feel better but instead my brain went to hell

[orcelito]

& i'm feelin the mashwood in this house tonight

[shima-draws]

Mhmm. Got new OC ideas on the brain. It’s basically the trope of “I thought I lost you when we were kids but you’ve actually been by my side now that we’re adults yet I was too fucking STUPID to realize it was you all along” which is like. MWAH chef’s kiss 😩👌

[gaylightisminetocommand]

Tales of Arcadia Characters as Random Shit I've Overheard

Krel: G-A-Y, that’s how you spell it. Eli: (inaudible as he points at something on his laptop screen) Krel: HOW IS THERE AN E??? Jim: What flavour were those croissants? Toby: I don’t know, fuckiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing uh fruit? Jim: What, normal fruit? Because they tasted like cranberry. Jim: The bell has gone, just like my dad. Krel: I’d rather perform a lobotomy on my dog. Jim: I can’t believe it’s been a year. Time… really doesn’t fly, it’s been a fucking eternity. Steve: Who’s ‘she’, the mother’s cat? Eli: How do you feel about the word ‘bulge’? Krel: I don’t like that word. Claire: He called you a vegetarian waffle. Toby: You calling me a fucking veggie waffle? Jim: What kind of waffle has meat in it? Steve: The guy who invented KFC was called Kentucky Fried Chicken. Dumbass.

[thecranewivesrpf]

when you had a shitty day but the gay people in your phone are nice to you and say hi because they care about your presence and you aren't a waste of space

[chuuyanakaahara]

sometimes. sometimes I forget that I am indeed mentally ill. and that other people. having schedules. and preferences. is not rejection against me specifically. and someone talking. slightly differently. does not mean they are angry or agitated at me being around. because it's not typical to assume bad faith of someone who has never shown that you should do such a thing.

[variablejabberwocky]

today i learned a thing that is obvious in retrospect but i failed to figure out on my own until right the fuck now:

if you go in for a bacterial infection sooner you don't have to take as many antibiotics to kick its ass back out of you

~*~amazing~*~

[acesammy]

ngl seeing a rocketman gifset actually punched me in the face

[welcometohighwater]

i feel like it is smarter to reserve judgment since i'm not even a quarter into map of the otherlands yet, but i am so excited about the emily wilde series in a way i haven't been excited about books in years. one book kinda got me this way last year, but it was a different sort of excited-thinking-about-it-a-ton in that it was hell followed with us, which is not exactly the sort of book that you get giddy-happy-excited over, no matter how excellent and captivating it may be. it's not, uh, a romp. but these emily wilde books. man

part of it is simply that heather fawcett is doing the fantasy-alternate-history thing right, like better than a lot of fantasy writers who just craft their own fucking worlds from whole cloth. like, some of the social baggage i was expecting to encounter given the time and place it's set in (well, the setting is all over kinda but it's got an edwardian england steeze because that's the where and when of emily wilde herself). and i can't speak for some of the major factors yet (haven't necessarily seen much in the way that fawcett handles race and colonialism), but there's such a refreshing lack of sexism and homophobia. women are just PART of academia, women are the leaders and the most influential members of their communities. and people are just queer. there's a lesbian couple in the first book, they're planning a wedding, no one bats an eye. i'm so crazy to think that this is just how things are in this world, there's not the heaviness of women and queer people overcoming things to get where they are in their world. there's even a moment in the first book where i was rolling my eyes because it was veering toward dashing-hero-rescues-damsal-in-distress, but, well. it subverts it in some interesting ways

and then also, the romance between emily and wendell bambleby is the only love story i've been invested in in . . . i don't know how long. and i think a big part of that is because we're coming in to a completely established relationship. they have a set rapport. they have a friendship of half a dozen years. i love that i'm introduced to characters who already know so many of each other's idiosyncrasies, that i get to learn about the characters through the way they already view each other, not having to see the tedious getting-to-know-you stuff. it's interesting, because not having to see that part of their relationship makes me want to see that part of their relationship, you know? because i know how they know each other, i want to see how they learned each other. it'd be fun, in retrospect. and then, of course, there's the fact that wendell is a fucking faerie king and he's so obsessed with this messy, prickly mortal woman. he gets through life in the mortal world so carelessly on his charm, and she is so careful and dedicated to her academic pursuits that she doesn't have time for his nonsense, but in a loving way. like, she's figured out who and what he is so long before anyone else knows, and i imagine the first time afterward that he tries to enchant her and it doesn't phase her because she's prepared for it, he's like "well, i can't NOT fuck her" (and then, of course, spends years and years pining after her and explicitly not fucking her out of respect)

man i don't know. i'm just EXCITED about these books right now. i don't remember when i've been enjoying books this much. i need to go unload the dishwasher and vacuum. jeez. whatever

[deityofhearts]

sometimes me or lex remember that time she was on call with her bf and she said “capiche?” and I interjected saying “isn’t that a food?,, oh wait. quiche.”

[instantartific]

it says you have comms open? do you have any links to ur comm stuff i can't seem to find it...that or im completely blind

I do!

And this made me realize that it, ah... is not very clear whatsoever how to do that, so I apologize for that! I should probably get on making a website for commission stuff, actually... added to the list of things to do.

But for right now my only commission stuff is up on my Ko-fi here. Though honestly, you can email me at instantartific@gmail.com or you can just DM me right here (now that i, er... remembered to turn it on)! I much prefer to communicate everything clearly beforehand and... I will be honest I'm not that sure how Ko-fi works.

For general stuff: right now I'm accepting Paypal and Cashapp. Depending on what you'd like my prices range from ~$30-60 USD or more given the amount of time it takes me to render stuff, to give you an idea.

[collecting--stardust]

This semester's summary: existential crisis, existential crisis, existential crisis

[no1ryomafan]

Biggest yet smallest downside of being autistic is when you start associating your special interests with characters which is harmless but then sometimes you find the most explicit songs with the weirdest lyrics and go “oh god that’s one of my blorbs” and the song is a bop but anytime it comes on it’s like a trigger and IT ALWAYS HAPPENS WHEN YOUR ALONE.

and yes this has happened to be multiple times to me.