#won't be posting any of the previous stuff because we have been drawing one another and I don't have permission from the other students

[oreegaanoo]

I'm taking a drawing course and we have been drawing statues with charcoal for the last two classes and I drew these four of the same statue!

First the big one (A1?) (used a brush and the charcoal dust to make the softer shadows!),

then the A3 size linework one,

A3 sized squiggly one,

and the last one is A4 sized drawing from the front of the statue with my left hand as a challenge.

And here's the statue (squiggles to cover another student to the side)

[invidiia]

can you do more teenage platonic yandere ones 🙏🙏 i love them bro

one suggestion is them (chuuya, ranpo, dazai, sigma, idek) w a rebellious teenager 🙏🙏🙏🙏

sorry, you've been misinformed.

⋆⭒˚｡⋆ "we appreciate." 𖤐 separate platonic yanderes chuuya, ranpo, dazai, sigma x reader

these mfs cannot deal with rebellious teenagers!!!!

m.list // previous

[ a/n ; HI SILLIES SORRY I DIDNT DO A YANXREADER POST YESTERDAY IDKFKKFKFCX ANYWAY HERES THE PLATONIC YANDERE SILLY PEOPLE ?! ]

[ warning ; platonic yandere, lowkey crack 😭😭, stalking ]

— CHUUYA NAKAHARA

⋆ lord, please give this man the patience to deal with you

⋆ he gets it, he was a rebellious teenager too, but so? he doesn't have time for you to act this way, like at all. probably best to just,, cooperate

⋆ chuuya has to put a lot of time into his job, being an executive and all, so that leaves you a lot of time to go do rebellious teenager shit

⋆ you can imagine it's pretty often he comes back to find you not there, or if you go to school, he'll get calls about you skipping class to go do whatever it was teenagers did when they skipped

⋆ yokohama mall is huge, perfect place to go to have fun and get away from chuuya!! it most definitely ends with you getting dragged out of the mall doors by your collar and shoved into the backseat of the car to go home, but it was fun anyway.

⋆ funny ass little arguments, too. "and if i find out you left when i come back, you'll regret it." "uh-huh, i bet i will." "just shut up and stay here."

⋆ please take him seriously, or at least pretend to, for his own sanity 😭

— RANPO EDOGAWA

⋆ ranpo doesn't take you seriously at all.

⋆ even if he knows you'll actually go do something stupid, he won't take you seriously. and when you go do it, consequences await you anyway 🤷

⋆ no point in keeping secrets, he already knows

⋆ plans to sneak out? getting stuff without permission? anything you keep from him? yeah, he knew already lol

⋆ lowkey draws a line at going against him and doing illegal stuff. committing any kind of crime? lmao no, he'll just keep you with him at all times or something which is probably embarrassing asf

⋆ am i wrong to think he may drag poe into this? maybe, shrug

— OSAMU DAZAI

⋆ he doesn't have time either, i almost feel bad for him

⋆ he's like ranpo actually, has no shame in forcing you almost everywhere with him or leaving you to atsushi which is really evil, poor atsushi

⋆ arguments are funny as hell (for him) probably you yelling and trying to make a point and explain why you do whatever you do or something and dazai just laughing and not listening LMAO

⋆ "that's crazy kid lmao" "i'm trying to make a point, don't fucking call me that."

⋆ doesn't really care about you yelling at him. just forces you everywhere with him

⋆ remember in chuuya's part where you just sneak into yokohama mall to get away from him and have fun? too bad lmao, dazai knew you were coming and followed you anyway!! just when you thought you were finally alone, away from the suffocating presence of dazai and could terrorize the shoppers in peace, nope LOL

⋆ he just tags along with you, keeping a hand on your shoulder and a smile on his face while you just grit your teeth and deal with him. "can we just go home?" "no wayy, didn't you wanna come here?" "not with you."

— SIGMA

⋆ poor guy lmao

⋆ literally has to stop you from terrorizing the customers or damaging the casino somehow

⋆ a little hard to sneak out unless you have an ability or another person to help you

⋆ cue nikolai coming to the casino to bother sigma and then helping you sneak out because it'll annoy sigma and he doesn't care LMAO

⋆ probably ends up locking you in your room because he doesn't trust you enough to keep you with him. sigma learned that from a past mistake he made with you

⋆ "wait, this card is damaged. the game isn't valid, therefore, you need to replay." and then the teenager next to him probably being the one who messed up the card LOL

[hornystiel]

once again seeing shit on twt and i saw it here multiple times too and i just have to say

the passage that 'you write/draw/make edits for yourself in the first place and it's fun as it is!!! and you shouldn't want attention or gratification!! otherwise you're somehow a bad person!!' - sucks ass

i'll hide the rest but i want to write it all down because it's been bothering me for a while

it may be surprising for many but many published and famous authors also write because of money it brings them? and fame? and recognition? shocker right. yes, not only because of this (tho some do it mostly because of all of the above and that's why many books are shit yes come at me bro tell me i'm no critic etc etc idc) same with artists etc. and it's okay people have no problemo with it, it's actually expected for them to get paid and praised. another example - youtubers. they create shit, they are monetized, they have income etc and yet i think you heard them say at least once 'i'll release the next vid once the previous one reaches ~~~likes and comments'. and again it's nothing really. it's always your choice whether to buy that book, see that film, watch that vid, leave that comment and like. you do it or you don't

in fandom we do everything for free (i'm not talking about commissions) and yet when many creative people ask to simply reblog our stuff for it to be seen because it's how tumblr functions - we're met with the whole ass lecture that we can't Demand anything from people, and that well if you don't get shit then you're not as good because greatness always finds a way, and basically we should be grateful for what we have and shut it. it's like a Scandal every time this topic is brought up. how dare. feels like i'm running here with a gun pointed to their heads and shout at them to reblog my stuff or else. and then those same people and many others are surprised there's lack of content except screencaps and texts we've all seen a hundred times and that people left for other places and fandoms

if i wanted to create only for myself i would've never posted anything here or on any other platform. why should i, i'm only satisfying myself, right. fun! but it so happens that i also want connection with fandom, and yes, boo me, i want attention and maybe even praise sometimes. and that isn't some vile thing to want. we are all humans and we thrive on such things and yes nobody suffered from a good comment or a reblog with excited shouting

and surprise, when i see that my stuff is doing well and people reach out and people are happy or sad or just experience the emotions i wanted from them - i want to make more things quicker and i want to progress and i want to share. double win

nobody owes anybody here. you don't want to engage at all? it's your right i won't hunt you down. really, i will make my stuff regardless, it's just i don't owe anybody here either and i can choose to share only with those who are interested? and way more popular people can do the same? because why spend the energy if people only consume things silently or just glance at it and scroll down and get real defensive about their right to only like stuff on the reblogging site. dw i won't do it i'm too much of an attention whore for it and i'm not afraid to admit it. anyway it's not a ~threat~, i'm simply stating that people who create stuff can do whatever they want with it, they created it for free, 'for themselves in the first place' and you can't get deathly offended when some of them move places, change fandom just because they get what they always wanted from it, remove their stuff or lock the next chapters of a fic for the people they want to see it, especially if you were a silent spectator this whole time

idk i'm not going anywhere really with this i'm just mad how we really are 'content creators' in the eyes of many. only here to throw up our 'content' - art, fics, edits, gifs - for it to be consumed silently in some abyss, reposted, stolen, and be grateful not to be eaten by it

[hispieceofcake]

🎸Headcanons about Adam from Hazbin Hotel - Pt2🤘🏻

This is part two of my headcanons that I had written in an old post, feel free if you want to read it, this is the post.

Well, for a while now I've been looking for Adam's headcanons to get more ideas or inspiration, and well, most of what I find are nsfw and well... I'm asexual, so I decided to start creating a little content about Adam but being headcanons about him and personal stuff about him, so let's start.

• Adam keeps his wings under his arms so they don't bump into things

As we can see, Adam had long and large wings full of golden feathers, I believe that he keeps his wings hidden below his arms so as not to bump into things or people because of their large size, you can clearly see when he opens his wings that they are very large compared to the wings of other angels. Seraphim (like Emilly and Sera) have around six wings, but they are small. Lucifer also has six large wings, but he can hide them by making it look like he doesn't even have wings, but Adam can't do that, so he keeps them below his arms.

• Style of clothing he wears (when not wearing the tunic or at a concert with his band)

Well, as Adam is a rocker (he says so himself) and a guitarist in a band, I think he would wear regular black leather jackets or ones with golden spikes on the shoulders (a little similar to what the members of the band Guns N' Roses sometimes wore), Belts with gold details or very striking spikes, bracelets and fingerless gloves, and high-top black combat boots. I made an example image.

This also leads me to think that he wears combat boots under his tunic daily, as you can't see his feet I imagine he does. Another headcanon I have is that when he performs with the band he wears black shadow under his eyes and on his eyelids (just like in the image I made).

In general, his style itself would be like the 80s rockers like I said before in the first headcanons post.

•Adam has abandonment issues

This is inspiration from a post I saw here on Tumblr, it was just a headcanon but it made me think a lot. The context is that Adam has abandonment issues (I do too🥲) because of his past "relationships" like Lilith and Eve who betrayed and abandoned him for Lucifer. He would have this abandonment problem but as we know him he would hide it with his big ego for fear of being abandoned again.

• Rock songs he'd probably like

It's been a few days since I started listening to rock again and a band that caught my attention and made me think of Adam was Slipknot, not all the songs but there are some that I think Adam would like "Snuff" and "Dead Memories". I chose these two songs because I think Adam could identify with them, for example "Snuff" with the lines:

"bury all your secrets in my skin

Come away with innocence, and leave me with my sins

The air around me still feels like a cage

And love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage again"

"So, break yourself against my stones

And spit your pity in my soul

You never needed any help

You sold me out to save yourself

And I won't listen to your shame

You ran away, you're all the same

Angels lie to keep control

If you still care, don't ever let me know

If you still care, don't ever let me know"

With these two parts of the song, I think Adam would relate because of the betrayals of his two previous wives with Lucifer.

Please listen to the songs and tell me what you think, I honestly thought of him when reading the lyrics of these songs.

• Adam is ambidextrous

I read about it on Hazbin Hotel's Wikipedia and then I thought "well, that makes sense, I'll write about it 🤔". In this headcanon Adam would be ambidextrous, as in several scenes in the series he shows him strumming the guitar with both hands, eventually switching them and playing completely well with either of them.

• Adam likes to draw

I found this one quite funny and a little cute when I noticed it, in some parts of the series they show Adam drawing, for example on that parchment he shows Charlie in the song Hell is Forever, and another is on that list from the trial episode where Adam writes a list of what was needed to enter heaven and below the things listed there are some drawings of him. (It reminded me of when I draw in the corner of exams 🤓☝🏻).

Well guys, that's it for now, I've been really busy trying to make the Beetlejuice Masterlist and full-time school is killing me, thanks for reading, kisses from the bottom of my heart. 💗🎸

[domaystic]

Also, other notes that I didn't include in the main post or it would have been too long:

1. the thing with the 3 categories, if someone is interested, it's because I was under the impression that there were only things and stuff in the previous ones, but actually, when you talk about things in one's everyday life then you might end up interacting with another person and who do we meet with that are not family or friends or s/o? That's one. The third category is what I find more difficult to explain, but the "container" word draws pretty close: I wanted to find some kind of macro-term that could be of one's everyday life but also pick easily up the singularities of a one's fandom-world-nuances??? (I explained this to a friend and it didn't go through ._.)

2. the previous years I had the prompts translations already ready, this time not yet. I'll be updating the blog and Ao3 profile page bit by bit.

3. in the list of tags I wish people would write in their tumblr post, there is no #2024daytagging as in 2022 and 2023; I'm still thinking how to organize that because I think it's going to be more messy this time. Cause this way I feel like I'm relying a lot on how people will actually act? ��_O I'm pondering also if it isn't better to just wait until May is over to see how things actually roll out. Or maybe I should just create the tag(s) based on the three categories, disregarding the days altogether. But then, does this mean that there won't be any sequence? Which is why I wrote so in the general rules so, yes, I think so? Because it might be that one wants to do prompt #03 and the day after wants to do prompt #J. But maybe it's just like the people who only wants to fill only a certain amount of prompts... mmmhhhhh I welcome any insight if you have but still this is 90% an aspect of me-liking-organized-things, I abandoned the clocks, I might be able to abandon also the prompts-are-day-tags (it will still hurt though XD)

[csmeanerr]

(General/Unspecified CS and it's a long one I'm sorry. If anon somehow fails, can you please post this without my name attached?)

I’m feeling a bit sad. I’m a member of two CS which I won't name, but both were started by one person. I joined the first one over a year ago after obtaining a design that I really liked, and things seemed to be going well at first? After some time, the creator transferred ownership of the CS to another person so that they could focus on their second species instead, which regretfully lead to the death of the first species as the new owner has done nothing since taking over. There hasn’t been a new design sale, event, prompt, or even any community activity in the discord since the ownership transfer, it's just been super dead and quiet. :(

The second species really fits a lot of my likes for design elements and aspects so I'm a big fan of it. Most of us who were in the first CS migrated to the second and the community felt really wholesome at the start. We were close-knit, we joked about the species and the NPCs, made memes, all the fun stuff. At the start, the designs were getting bought within seconds of being posted for sale, too. But now, whether it’s a change in financial situation for everyone or something else, the species is starting to feel like it’s dying as well and I know it’s because things aren’t selling as well anymore, if at all sometimes. It’s a shame because there’s a lot of nice lore for the species and the world they’re a part of is really interesting to myself and others in the community, but you can tell that the owner has lost their motivation and it’s definitely due to the lack of profitability. I’m worried that this species is going to meet the same fate as the previous one.

Like everything else, CS had their prime time where they were big and profitable but nothing lasts forever. I feel like aiming for profitability over community engagement is the wrong way to approach things, because it isolates a huge part of the community which can lead to stagnation and reduce the growth of the userbase.vAm I the weird one? Hear me out.

There was a time when I too wanted to make my own CS, and I admit that I was inspired by the species that were making $500 or more per design in very quick sales. Let’s face it, how many people wouldn’t love to make that kind of money after spending some time on a drawing? Even considering this though, my approach was always going to be towards the community and the species world itself over the money. I had it in mind that, if a community was fun, engaging, and accessible to people, that would actually be more profitable in the long run. More accessibility means more users participating, and that means more people potentially willing to spend small amounts of money which would add up over time.

Not that it matters anymore. That desire has long passed now and if I did go through with making a species, it would likely be an open species rather than a closed one with little to no monetary involvement at all.  I don’t know, I guess I just don’t like how most big name CS have such high price tags and prey on FOMO, exclusivity, and impulsive buying habits. It's turned me off of closed species as a whole concept but I don't want to leave just yet because I like the characters I have and the friends I talk to daily about the CS and other hobbies or interests.

Sorry for the long ramble, I'm just salty. Maybe I am the weird one for feeling the way I do, and maybe I just need to cope harder about it.

no problem this is a place to let it all out after all. sometimes you gotta look back and see all the time you wasted on cs

[personalanonymousrants]

I'm in a weird place in life, story time.

Every hour in my day is spent staring at a screen while sitting in my couch. Studies? Online. (Currently in vacation so yeah, not even studying) Friendships? Online, and currently very few (2 to be exact). Therapy? Online, once a week. Mental stimulus? Reading random posts on all sort of subjects online. Do I leave my house for anything, ever? Very, very rarely. Irl friends/companies? My ex, only him (he's not a monster, I assure you). We see each other every weekend and occasionally after he leaves work on a weekday when I *need* to get out of the house even if it is for just one hour to grab a coffee and watch the street.

I feel like I'm floating in the void of outerspace, completely lost.

Recently, I've been bombarded by my own thoughts of projects I abandoned. If you're reading this, brace yourself, this gonna be long. From 8 years of age I took great interest on reading, writing, acquiring knowledge (not always useful), learning languages (here am I fluent in English now). 12 years of age, I absolutely loved writing on notebooks (I'd always carry 3 of them EVERYWHERE in my backpack, each for a different topic). I would also spend hours on end drawing anime/mangá style art. 14 years of age, I got my very first tablet and began trying digital art and painting, while maintaining all the rest. I carried on all of those interests and hobbies until my 15 years of age.

In between 12 and 15, my privacy was breached many times and I got bullied for my art, for my texts, for my attempts creative expression as a whole. I was not one to express verbally already (actual autism, selective mutism), because talking felt unsafe and bullying made that worse. Overtime, artistic and creative expression felt less and less safe.

Until by 15 years of age I got into an abusive relationship and dropped everything. I lost my voice, and what was left of my ability to express myself along with my dignity and self-respect. I just gave up for good on trying to express myself in any way.

Got out of that relationship at 17. Entered another one with an alcoholic, made some attempts at trying to start writing again, on private, password protected journals on a website I won't disclose. Again I was forced to let someone read my stuff and had verbal stones thrown at me. By 19 I left that relationship, and entered another one. Healthier one, but not perfect, still with some toxic traits because nobody is perfect he is unable to understand some things about me and is unaware of others, all he knows is I'm traumatized (got PTSD from the 2 previous relationships), mentally fucked and hard to deal with. [He also has untreated ADHD (which doesn't favor him being able to listen to my long explanations of what's actually going on with me), and a very critical personality (though he means to be constructive, he lacks sense. Both of us think he might be autistic as well as he does identify with it, but he can't focus on learning more about it as he can't for any other psychology or neurodevelopment/neuroscience topic, at least he tried).]

I again tried to recover my interests and means of creative expression through art and stuff, but as a critical designer he'd give his unsolicited opinion and again unknowingly take away my freedom of expression by accident when he was only trying to help, he was unaware on how his comments hit me in a very different way and I was unable to communicate that to him, explain, or make him aware. That relationship ended by unrelated reasons when I was 22, in May. Just over a year ago. It was very hard to deal with the breakup and he remains as my only in-real-life friendship/social interaction other than my mom and occasionally grandparents.

I am currently 23 years old, I want to try to recover/reclaim my life, my voice, my creative power, creative expression, writing, drawing on paper, doing digital art. I started by beginning in oil painting, my paintings are unfinished and have been sitting in my shelves for months now with no new alterations. I feel like writing and I know not what to write about because there is this huge block which is something in between a creative block and a sense of danger/unsafe in my chest.

I feel like drawing on paper but I don't even try all the progress I worked so hard on making in my skills between 12 and 15 was totally lost. I don't know what to draw anymore (nothing comes to mind) and when I try it feels like everything is too ugly. Digital art is even worst. It's worth mentioning I lost any precision I had with a pen or pencil (I also shake a lot due to Anxiety and PTSD). So I decided to focus on other areas of life, started college online in a unrelated subject, while pursuing this technical degree online I'm also trying entrance exams for another university in a totally different bachelor (psychology) to do both at the same time.

I made projects that would suit well this focus on other areas:

Finishing oil paintings.

Reading Tarot/Sibilla/Lenormand professionally.

Teaching English conversation.

I have not taken a single step forward in any of those. It's like I'm petrified into staring at the computer and doing the same things over and over again:

Studying

Talking to online friends

Browsing random knowledge

Reading random books

I have lost my capability to organize my life/tasks and move things forward, completely. The only thing I'm moving forward is college which is now on break.

The wish to express myself creatively is calling me constantly, yet the block still stops me. The biggest advance I made towards that is rambling about my personal life in this anonymous page which I'm constantly paranoid about being linked to my identity or figured out by anyone in real life (specially my ex who's my only friend, or the closest I got to one. He has my back in a lot of stuff) for no special reason other than the feeling of unsafe exposure.

I will keep on trying to improve my organization. I will keep on trying to regain my power of self-expression, be it artistic, textual, visual, and even someday verbal! I know this will be a long battle, and any support is welcome since I have no means to express to anyone irl (other than my therapist) that I need that support. I must not give up even if any drawbacks shove me straight back in my isolated cave. I hope someday I'll be able to produce quality art again, in texts or images, and post it here, and eventually somewhere not anonymous. If I get there, I will be proud. I just don't know how to start or what to even try first, but somehow I will figure, wing it! Any advice is welcome. If you read this far, thank you very much for giving so much attention to this fragment of the story of my life, that truly is much appreciated.

Thank you, Tumblr. This is indeed an amazing website.

[corruptgrail]

Hi, I'm Panda/Grail, It/They/He, and an adult!

This is pretty much a "post whatever I feel like posting" blog, so expect:

- LGBTQ+, Mogai, Disability and Mentally ill reposts;

- Fandom reblogs sometimes too (Mostly Undertale at the moment, but some MCYT might appear too);

- Art posts, I recently came back to drawing (if you like my art, please reblog it!)

- Sometimes rants and vents (always tagged as such, and with TW/CW if needed)

- If you're looking for my writing, check @corrupted-hands-texts

Now who can interact with this blog?

As long as you aren't being an asshole, that you know what consent is and can respect it, and you don't come up to me to start discourse over stuff or stances, welcome!

Some sort of not exactly a FAQ under the cut because no-one asked yet lol:

You used plural pronouns somewhere/you said someone else drew it but it has your name on it?

Yeah, that's normal, I'm a system. I share my head with multiple people, and you might be talking with one and the next minute someone else! Also we don't disclose our names unless we feel comfy doing so, please don't ask. ^°^

What's your stance on "____"?

Dude I don't wanna partake in discourse, please don't ask! I'll probably talk about it by myself on my own eventually. Also if you insist you might just get blocked.

Do you have any other social medias?

I used to, but I kinda gave those up (especially TikTok). My longest running platform has been Discord, but it's not exactly a social media lol (also no you can't exactly have it unless I see you as a close friend)

Do you have any Undertale AUs?

Yeah! I have one that is "sans"-centric, which is the Story Of Doll;

And then I have The Tale is Now Reversed (I won't talk about this one), very old from my previous Undertale phase; and The Tale Of Abyss which is a remake around a skeleton OC I made soon before finding myself in another main fandom (Hollow Knight my beloved)

[a-dragons-explanations]

Hi. Rani again, just a slightly different sideblog this time (for reasons of wanting to do this on the blog with a lower follower count, because that felt polite).

So normally when people walk away from a conversation like this, I just drop it and let them - for one, I get that life stuff happens and you might just have not had the time or energy to respond (especially considering that things got a bit heated in the discussions on the original version of this post), and for another, I don't want to come off as actually harassing people. Forgive me if this is in fact a case of you just not having had the time and/or energy to respond yet, but it's been over 48 hours since you posted this and I initially responded to it, and you were previously consistently responding to people's replies on the original post within a few hours - and, as I said, you also didn't initially respond to these same questions from me on that first post either (though again, that may well just be because it got a bit lost in the scuffle that happened) - so you can understand why the conclusion that I am, in fact, being intentionally ignored seems more and more likely.

Despite that being my general policy, however: in this specific instance, because of a specific series of events and because you're actually a member of the community (as opposed to the antikin whom I usually find myself in this situation with), I wanted to point out a couple of things. If you choose to not respond to this, that's fine, and I won't continue any further, but I wanted to be transparent and say this straight-up, and as previously mentioned, I wanted to do it on a blog with a lower follower count because I frankly don't feel like it's polite to put you on blast in front of around three thousand people. (And I felt like it would be significantly weirder and more pressuring to DM you out of nowhere with it.)

In that previous discussion (linked again, as above), you criticized Page (@/who-is-page) for his tone (that is, upset and angry) and told him to, quote, "Maybe ask questions before pointing fingers." Moreover, you did this while, if I may be blunt here, ignoring a large portion of his actual rhetorical points in favor of criticizing the way he said them. I can understand not wanting to engage in a discussion with that tone of anger involved. However, you have simultaneously and subsequently proceeded to flat-out ignore me and others when we bring the questions you directly asked Page for, along with genuine critiques and concerns, in the politer tone which you requested and the absence of which you effectively used as a reason to ignore Page's rhetorical points. @/that-dreaming-dragon and @/the-wolf-poet got no response from you at all, and while you responded to @/unlikely-archangel, it was only to assent to xyr criticism of your tone, and xyr actual rhetorical points and questions were, again, completely ignored.

Bluntly, Thorn, it is difficult to draw any conclusion from that but a) that you can't actually defend your point, and instead of admitting that and conceding that you may have been wrong, you're choosing to selectively answer only what little you can refute or criticize your opponents for, and b) that you aren't actually interested in the "civil discussion" you demanded from Page in the first place, despite claiming in that aforementioned conversation,

"My whole point in this discussion that I tried to make clear is that I am NOT the judge of things, but neither are you. I hear your side of things, and I will keep things into account, but I will continue to look into the topic and allow people to express an opinion if it seems important like this."

Which is, bluntly, a bad look, a show of hypocrisy, and just plain rude to the people and community you were kind of coming off as making demands toward (less so in the way you rephrased this newer version of the post, but you're still saying we should change a major part of our community's language, even if it's no longer phrased as "this is what we're doing now, you're not allowed to keep doing it the old way").

If you've decided you don't want to engage with this topic anymore, then fine; if you ignore this, then let this be the last thing said on it. Like I said, I don't want to come off as harassing you or anything; I don't intend to pursue this further unless you want to. But I want to point out the pattern you are showing to you, because I do believe that you genuinely were trying to do the right thing with this post, and I want you to have the opportunity to realize that this is a part of why people are getting upset and angry that you may not have seen or understood so that we can hopefully avoid this happening in the future.

Anyway. That's all. Thank you for your time.

Why people with PLS find the use of "phantom limbs" by the alterhuman community offensive

NOTE: This is a repost of an ealier post with more of an own-opinion/giving people with PLS a voice-approach rather than a community announcement, after having received critique from it that I agree with. I am completely fine with people having different opinions on this. I might make a video about this in the future, but I'd like to make you all aware of a statement I've received from people with PLS.

The use of the medical term "phantom limbs" is heavily tied to Phantom Limb Syndrome (PLS) which is a medical condition that affects amputees and those born with congenital differences in anatomy. It can be similar but is said to be vastly different from what otherkin and therians experience during phantom shifts. People experiencing PLS and the like have made it known that comparing phantom shifts to the actual loss of a limb or PLS is offensive, so I am of the belief that this should not be done again. I personally recommend using the words phantom shifts, parts or appendages, or specify that appendages such as phantom paws, wings, tails, etc. instead.

I personally take responsibility for having made this comparison in the past, and I'd like to apologize to people who experience PLS or have lost a limb for doing so. It was not my place to make this comparison, as I cannot know what the experiences is actually like.

I urge everyone who may own an Alterhuman platform (whether that be a Discord server or social media platform), and who agree with this statement, to spread the word about this. You are free to use part of this text to explain things.

[ryuichirou]

I saw one very stupid post on my dash about how snk is OBVIOUSLY nazi propaganda and trying to convert all of us into imperialists and white supremacists. tbh it’s not the first time I’ve seen that kind of stuff and probably won't be the last, but for some reason this time it gave me a lot of anxiety (I got wordy, I'mma need to send another ask, sorry)

(part 2) It's been more than half and hour and I still feel this awful sensation in my chest. It's just overall pretty fucked how to have something you hold dear being misinterpreted in the worst way possible, and I was just wondering what are your thoughts on this situation or how you deal with people claiming all sorts of awful shit.

(part 3) I imagine that as an artist some people probably direct their issues with snk towards you, 'cause I don't even post that much fanart and I've gotten anons "trying to educate me" on why this series is so wrong, after posting drawings. Of course, you don't have to reply, maybe the topic makes you anxious too and I don't want to bother you, so sorry for the depressing topic (｡•́︿•̀｡)

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Tiiish, I want to hug you, I’m really sorry that this happened to you. I hope you’re feeling a little bit better now.

Like we already mentioned a while ago, when we were talking about that darn article, after we read through it and did a little fact checking (and I mean it when I say a little, because there weren’t many facts to check), we stopped caring about it. It’s not research at all, just a manipulatively written speculation on Yam’s motives and worldview, but sadly, people easily believe these accusations because they hate SnK and want to find a valid reason to hate it and shit on its fanbase. Because “I hate it because it’s nazi propaganda” sounds much cooler than “I hate it because it’s popular”, doesn’t it?

It’s easier to ignore the article itself though, and it’s much harder not to think about tumblr posts or those Twitter threads that get very popular (although there are a lot of bots on twitter, trust me…), and it’s especially difficult to ignore it when it’s specifically directed at you. But the only thing that these people deserve is a good ol’ block and (if they’re getting too offensive and abusive) a report for harassment. The thing is, their opinion doesn’t matter: it won’t change SnK’s story, it won’t affect its success and popularity, it doesn’t affect anything other than our mood (temporarily lol). Because they aren’t critics who actually give a flying fuck about the subject matter, they’re just random assholes with a hateboner for SnK, who sit in their echochamber and discuss the same shit over and over again. And if they’re “fans” of the SnK, it’s just them “consuming it critically” 🙄 such a convenient phrase and so easy to abuse.

If we think about these accusations again… they’re so damn nonsensical, it’s almost amazing. I’m not going to reread it or to make a proper counterpoint article out of this ask, so this is just based on how we remember these accusations.

Like, what part of SnK approves and pushes the idea of imperialism in any way? When the entire idea of the story is that war is bad? When people like Onyankopon, whose homeland was invaded by Marley, exist? And it’s never portrayed as a good thing? Having only one country dominating the world’s situation is literally the main reason why everyone’s suffering??

And come to think of it, Isayama is one of the few manga artists to kind of sort of openly critique Japan: he literally drew Kiyomi losing her cool and drooling while thinking about all the profit and wealth she would get from the deal with Paradis. Why do people never talk about that? What is it, if not a critique of greedy and two-faced nature of people from Azumabito clan, who are heavily implied to represent Japan? I don’t read a lot of manga in general, but do you know how many mangakas I’ve seen who directly talked shit about Japan while being Japanese? Two. Excluding Isayama.

Isayama is clearly invested in the Western culture and he understands the World’s History. He understands that political relationships are complex and that there are no “bad” or “good” countries. I don’t want to make assumptions about how much perspective of the world’s relationships the average person from Japan has, but I still feel like Yams has a pretty good understanding of it. He did his research for the subject matter, and while it’s obviously not perfect, it’s clearly there.

These people also claim that SnK is anti-Korean and anti-Semitic, but if Hetalia had taught me anything, it is that if the story has or used to have any anti-Korean undertones, the Korean readers wouldn’t want to have anything to do with it. They would be the first people to ditch the manga, they would be the first people to critique SnK, and rightfully so. They burnt Uniqlo clothes, their overall domestic policy is pretty anti-Japanese, so there’re literally zero reasons for them not to destroy SnK if they see it as anti-Korean. But the size of the Korean SnK fandom suggests otherwise, doesn’t it.

And the “big noses = Jewish caricature” argument, seriously? How anti-Semitic can you get? Who the fuck looks at people and goes “oh, those have big noses, bet they’re caricature of Jews”?? Sorry I’m getting heated lol The argument about “Asian artists portray Westerners with prominent noses because that’s what we look like to them” has been done a lot of times, I’m not going to go over than again.

And god forbid Isayama to use Germany and Europe to draw a story where his characters are (approximately) Germans and Europeans! Let’s go fetch our pitchforks to punish Isayama for using their aesthetic to make his story look more believable and authentic, right? “Oh, those areas where they hold Eldians resemble places from real life”, like no shit???? Ofc they would??? That’s what references for making the story more grounded are used for??? If I were to write a story about a fictional place based on a real one that I don’t live in, I’d use some visual references to help me to make it more believable??? Why do I even need to explain that?

In my previous post I talked about the armbands and ghetto and stuff, but I’ll reiterate: even if there are thematic similarities, it doesn’t mean that the story mirrors our history. And it doesn’t mean that there is an analogy, since Eldian’s situation is quiiiite different than what Jewish people had to go through. It’s just thematic similarities. And it still doesn’t plant any specific idea in the reader’s head, other than “having people shoved into ghettos with 0 civil rights is a horrible thing”, and I can’t comprehend what’s anti-Semitic or imperialistic about it. Also I’m sorry, but nazis are not the only people who genocided a bunch of people, breaking news. Nor did they invent armbands. Same goes for Japan in WWII.

And now for my favourite argument: Erwin is nazi because his name is Erwin and he was born on the same day than some nazi guy died… I won’t even talk about why this idea is hilariously stupid, I just want to appreciate the level of nitpicking that’s going on here.

So… yeah. People who have nothing else to do but to complain about the show they hate don’t matter. And people who consider themselves a part of the SnK fandom and still say this bs (yep, there are people who do that) are huge hypocrites. The heck are they doing in this fandom then?? Of course, any story is up to interpretation, but this is so backwards?

Sorry for rambling so much… anyways. We’re happy enough not to encounter any hate related to this topic, but we think it’s because we ship Ereri and people already hate us for that, so the majority of shit we get is related to that, I guess we’re a lost cause for them. We’ll see if anything happens after this post though.

But once again, I’m very sorry that you had to go through this. Please remember that this isn’t personal at all, and people who harass strangers on the internet just want to flex their high moral ground while acting like complete assholes. You don’t have to explain anything to them, you don’t have to talk to them, you don’t have to listen to them or give them any attention. I hope you’ll never stumble upon anything like this; but if you ever do, please block them, don’t even bother reading their attempts at “educate” you. Isn’t worth it.

Please have a good day, Tish. And everyone who’s reading this reply.

[riverxkeichains]

4 Days Later, So Far...(UPDATE!!!)

WARNING: THIS IS LONG!

4 Days Later, After coming back from work? I looked at my Tumblr Account.

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HoLySHIT!

I Didn't Expect This to happen So Far, I got 50+ likes? and Some Reblogs on my Mavis x Rosie Art? Omg...

*Screams, Cries of Joy*

I'M SHOOK, SURPRISED, AND I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS AT THE SAME TIME!!

And you Know? I Think I got there So Far.

Okie Okie Sorry About that I got really Excited there, Because my other art and post either got little likes + Reblogs or Noun of them stuff, And This? I didn't really expect to get this much likes and some reblogs on my Mavis x Rosie Art ;;v;;.

Alright *takes a deep breath* Allow me to introduce myself For all time sake, For those of you Who don't Know? Hi My name is River K.C., However you can call me R.K.(Mainly), Rio, Keithlyn, Keith, Kei, R.K.C.M., or any nickname as long as it's not rude. I'm a user who post a lot of My Art for the most part, sometimes shitpost and Personal stuff(Not all, Since I rather not reveal most of them and Will for the most part, keep things a Secret. I'm very protective towards my Life and History, So NEVER EVER! ask me questions such as my age, my real name, or even asking me to do a face reveal -.-, So Please Don't  ask me those type of personal questions~). As of Recently I've been getting a Tons of likes, Some Reblogs, on my Recent Art and Honestly I can't Thank you all enough. This Is just Beautiful, Like Really Beautiful, That I didn't expect That I would get This much Likes. Like I said from the started I haven't get too much likes on any post form my other stuff for a very long time. Before I made this account I was once formerly using keixblade, Reason why I didn't uses Account anymore because I felt like I need a new Fresh Start of my blog and Things have been changing over the Years so That's why I decided to make a new blog and you know after making a new blog I've been starting to post again, such as my previous art, older post, welcoming myself, and I started to finally reblog for the first time which I haven't done in my old previous account. After that, I checked out my favorite artist, have plans to follow them soon. I don't usually post at the weeks but I'll definitely try my best to post my stuff at the weekends, You know Saturday, Sunday, But Sometimes Friday, I might be able to sometime post on the week of I had the free time to do so.

Story Time~! Before I made this Account and During Late March 2021, when I started to have some interest in TTTE for the first time, I looked up at some websites to research on the series and watched abit of Episodes about it(Thanks to Steve' Reviews Tugs, Thomas for PS1(Highly Recommend you all check it out if you had the JP PlayStation or an Emulator ;), and a Fan Animation That I won't tell because I'll talk about this in the Future, it's that one Fan Animation that I'll give a review on soon it's a pretty controversial one 😅 Yeah you know Exactly Why I'm Talking about, So DON'T Bash on me for this) So far It's Interesting, For the most part I Mostly got some Thomas info from the Wiki, Reddit, and Tumblr as well. When I did got to Tumblr, I check out some of the TTTE Art Most of them that I came across from my experience are really good :) But out of all the artist in the site? One Actually caught my interest and decided to check their blog out, their art is Beautiful and how amazing their Humanized Version of TTTE style is. And that blog I'm talking about is none other than @asktrio516, I always looked up to them, so much so that this was before when I started to come back to tumblr to started fresh. This blog gave me so much nostalgic feelings for some reason, not because of Thomas But Because of the human Version of these Characters, In Fact? This isn't my First Time That I look up to an artist for their art and for their humanized version form Another Show I'll take about soon(I Even alot of Fanart of this person's Human Version of these Characters, Again will make a separate post about it). So 2 months after Getting into Thomas for real, I saw the asktrio516 blog posting the Official Ships in their blog, Obviously I was very Excited when I saw it and In Fact? I Actually Loved Most of these Pairing that is Featured in this posted(Stay Tuned for the next post ;))). After reading the post, I saw one Pairing that Interested me and it was Mavis × Rosie, I always have this feeling that ngl? I always see them being together and wish they can have some Screen Time Together(Yes I know What's Going on but we don't Talk about that Disaster...yet....😤.....Damnit just God Damn You Mattle). So For A while? I've actually been planning on making an Mavis and Rosie Drawing in Emma's TTTE Human Designs. So it only took a quite for a while to get there, Reason I didn't do this sooner because of work, I had to help with my Friend, and I was very nervous yet shy at doing Mavis and Rosie being together at first. Thankfully with enough confidences and encouragement? In August, I ask the asktrio516 admin on Instagram if I can Asked something on tumblr, Fortunately they respond with yes(Honestly I was so Happy About It 😁) so at the same month, That's where I officially got my new Tumblr Account since I felt like my old Account is a bit dated and This is where I also have the confidence to ask the asktrio516 admin if I can draw Mavis with Rosie being together(Since Again they mentioned of having interested of doing this ship) and That's how the story goes c:.

I Really Apologize This is this So Frickin Long!

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Again I Have to Thank all you all for the Likes and Reblog of my Mavis x Rosie Art for asktrio516 blog~ It really Means alot, and I definitely have to Thank asktrio516 She's one of my Inspiration and i'm glad they accept my permission for doing this art(I'm sorry but Thank you so Much and Also Happy Birthday Emma 🥳).

You know Because of that? I might post some more Thomas the Tank Engine stuff soon and Even at some point? Might make a Full on TTTE Side Account for both Normal and my TTTE AU(Since There's at times that I will posted other things that isn't Thomas related(Also more info of my TTTE AU Coming Soon-) Heck! I might do some more TTTE Ships Later, If there's a high demand for them from Me? I might able to do Murdoch × Arthur, Gordon × BoCo, Proteus × Lady, and Hiro × Henry Next(4 of one of my Favorite Underrated Pairings, there's more I will do but for now I'm putting the ones that people haven't heard of or haven't talked about that much, Yet~ ;;))).

Hell! I might even do my favorite popular Thomas the Tank Engine pairing soon.

(Don't ask why because I'll make a expiration soon on why I love them but for now, There's just something that They have in my taste of shipping)

Thank you for Reading this and Have a great day, Goodbye~☆.

[ichimatsu-appreciation-blog]

Why I was inactive and probably won't be much active in near future as well

It's been a while since I last posted on tumblr (except of course for the previous post) and because of that I decided to make a quick update here. Just to clarify some stuff and all. I'm not sure how many of you know, but the reason why I'm so bad at updating and was/am on a hiatus is because I'm a very busy university student. Art university to be more specific, I'm currently in the 5th semester and will do my Bachelor next year. In the past six months I have been working on my very first animation short film and man, I'm still invested into it despite having submitted it to my prof for grading. As of now, I am tweaking it some more so it will be more suitable for film festivals. That's right, I'm going to submit my work to all kinds of festivals and hope for the best! However, because of that it won't be available to the public for a while, one year at minimum and two years at max. Then there's me neglecting another project that *is* dear to me but didn't have the same priority as my animation short. So I'm gonna work on it too, especially because my docent needs it asap so it can get graded haaah.... but I want it to be as perfect as possible so it can join my portfolio as well. Speaking of portfolios, I'm also working on another storyboard for my demo reel. My uni has a mandatory free semester in which we have to either study abroad or get an internship. I would love to work as storyboard artist or editor in *hopefully* Burbank, but I really need to step up my game. So I've been drawing as often as I can and practicing my voice acting. I'll probably end up having to record the dialogue on my phone because I can't be arsed to check out my uni's radio station, it would take me too long to figure that equipment out. The new semester started this week and I selected three projects (highly NOT recommended) because I'm a big dumdum. My prof is very concerned and anyone who hears about my true workload is side-eyeing me haha. But I know I can pull it off because I'm me which means a workaholic who may or may not is a bit insane and has a tendency to forget to eat and take breaks from working. Stupid jokes aside, I wouldn't have made that decision if I didn't know myself and my limits by now. I think that's all for now, man it got much longer than I intended it to. If you have any questions, feel free to send me an ask! Can be Ichimatsu/Osomatsu-san related but also if you have a question about art schools in general. Although I'm going to a German one, I'm sure that the principle is the same worldwide heh. I like to help people and I still remember how intimidated I was by the application process. Hell, I can relate now more than ever because I'm yet again intimidated by application processes that all these studios have. Okay that's it for now! See ya around for season 2 when I'll be taking breaks for Osomatsu-san and spoiling you guys with allllll tha Ichimatsu screenshots and caps! :3c