The Existance of a Herpderpasaurus.

My Princess Knight piece for the Tezuka Tribute show at Gallery Nucleus! Prints will be made available through the Nucleus Website

if loving you is cringe... then i dont wanna be based

current emotion: lumpy bird drawn with touchpad on ms paint at midnight

18+

This Friend Is Available To All Ages You Fool

KOE NO KATACHI (2016)

any comparison between early 00s online youth culture and late 10s online youth culture is fundamentally incompatible as soon as you move beyond the similarities of “lol teens being cringey” or whatever because we are in a completely different media landscape these days. making heavily-edited cosplay tiktoks is nothing like curating a deviantart gallery full of anime blingees because the former is always, implicitly or explicitly, an attempt to cash in on internet fame while the latter was simply rooted in the deep twisted psyche of someone feasting on the dark side’s cookies

Back in my day we did weird shit on the Internet because we were genuinely fucked up, not for clout

Technically true.

He got the job.

He takes his job seriously.

If you follow Selmers to the poetry society meeting in Night In The Woods, this is her poem. I loved it and the themes of the game, and wanted to use it as practice to see if i can control the way readers ‘hear’ the words through images.

Ancient era / era of the wilds

Soulmates and harmony

So there is apparently yet another discourse about AO3 donations. It comes back every time like clockwork. The argument against donating—and more specifically about the donors’ morals—centers around the global pandemic most of us are living with. Some people claim that we need to reconsider our priorities and privileges and reproach us to give to an archive fanfiction website instead of the various organizations currently asking for donations as well.

Many sentences keep reappearing in their tirades, whether it’s a response to someone’s post or their own, most of them referencing the content AO3 allows to be hosted on their website in general, their tone suggests strong disapproval—and sometimes outright hate—for the website’s lack of censorship when it comes to subjects they oppose the depiction of. Just like with sentences, words and accusations are circulating in their rants; ‘abuse’, 'incest’, 'pedophilia’.

It causes a strong reaction from people reading, including me, because decent people have a visceral repugnance toward the crimes mentioned above and those people are using it, intentionally leaving out the adjective that belongs right before each of their words. Fictional. It’s important to note this because it covers those people’s strategies to link the content creators’ to the works in a way that implies their endorsement for the crimes they write about.

Without the fictional nature of their work—as opposed to autobiographical, in that case the creator, whoever they are and regardless of the quality of their art, deserve to be punished—most of the famous writers we know would be in jail. Vladimir Nabokov would be in jail for grooming, incest, murder, and pedophilia. Thomas Harris would be in jail for cannibalism, torture, mutilation, and murder. Bret Easton Ellis would be in jail for rape, torture, mutilation, and murder (including child murder).

I wanted to make that difference clear before continuing. Fiction and reality, the real and the imaginary dreaming and being awake… One can influence the other when a person is already predisposed to it, but those are entirely separate entities. The word 'blood’ on paper will not bleed on a page. It’s a distinction you should be able to make on your own. It’s not anyone’s else job to limit themselves on account of your failure to do so and certainly not someone’s duty to impose censorship on other people because you can’t process something as simple as that.

It’s something I wanted to make clear =because I think it should be pointed out that the pandemic and the anxiety it causes to everyone is serving as a tool to impact people and more precisely people donating to AO3.

This post seeks to address a trend I have seen in debates regarding donations to AO3 in the middle of the pandemic.

They accuse donors of being selfish, of valuing entertainment more than human life, and essentially make them responsible for people dying, sometimes not even subtly. They know it will hit home because many of us are still under lockdown, know people who are sick or even dead, have to worry about health, our loved one’s health, our countries, and also the prospect of losing our jobs and the repercussions of a global economic recession. In one word we are scared. Many are also paranoid about contamination and unsure about the future after the pandemic, supposing the virus goes away at all.

Those people are exploiting this just as they are used to exploiting the worst crimes and use it to further their agenda. Blaming someone for treating themselves to some entertainment is ridiculous. I have noticed that some AO3 donors answer back that they have ALSO donated to charities almost as if to defend themselves. They shouldn’t have to do that. It’s ridiculous that they have to disclose any information about their expenses because antis feel entitled—with their followers—to tell random people on the internet what giving a few bucks to a fanfiction website mean about their integrity.

I want to stress not only that but also that people deciding to spend their money on entertainment without having donated to anyone else is not unethical or unscrupulous. I saw someone comparing AO3 to Nexflix and I think it is the best analogy regarding that debate.

On Tumblr, surrounded by a cultist and narrow perspective about fiction and money and politics, it’s easy to forget that this approach is not normal.

Do you justify yourself when you buy a book on Amazon despite not having donated to the many charities in the world at different times of the year—because there’s always a catastrophic event happening in the world, just not of that magnitude—or when you buy that dress you’re only going to wear on Christmas for one evening but saved for months to buy? Do you defend yourself when you buy a Spotify Premium account because the mobile app has fewer features? Do you explain to the cashier that yes you have donated to impoverished countries and homeless people when you go to the movies with your friends and buy overpriced popcorn that could feed someone in a third world country?

I give to charities and to homeless people and volunteer and I do it because I want to to, not because I am obliged to do it and you are not either. That attitude that dictates that you can’t spend and enjoy without giving first or feeling guilt over it id you don’t is unhealthy.

I really, really hate the “Batman is just a man in a costume who enjoys beating up the mentally ill” proclamation that emerges from time to time here on Tumblr. While it is true that some adaptions of the character are particularly violent and at times may come across as more of a projection of the writer’s uninformed views regarding mental health than accurate characterization, at his core Batman’s definitive trait is his unwavering desire to help, not to harm.

There is undeniable anger behind his actions when dealing with certain villains; for example, he has no qualms about dragging an unrepentant and laughing Joker into Arkham by the scruff of his purple suit, his mouth bleeding and missing a few teeth, after Joker has committed mass murder for the sake of his own entertainment and left Batman equally bloodied. A scene like that is meant to inspire a sense of justice–Joker has done something terrible and is not the least bit sorry about it (and will most certainly do it again once given the opportunity), battled the hero and lost, and is now being taken to a place where he cannot inflict pain onto others with the same ease as he could while free. 

But Batman–when written properly–does not exhibit sadism towards his villains by subjecting them to torture, does not dismiss their respective past traumas and expresses understanding even when he is repulsed by their actions, and does not seek to humiliate them through degradation on a level beyond ego-bruising when they are captured. In the Batman: The Animated Series episode “Lock-Up” Batman is horrified upon witnessing an Arkham security guard become abusive towards a terrified patient and (as Bruce) both initiates and attends an investigation that concludes with the guard being stripped of his power and unable to further torment defenseless asylum patients in secrecy. Bruce did not become Batman in order to perpetuate the same sort of indifferent brutality that led to the murder of his parents: he became Batman to end it. He does this not solely through physical force, but by examining the societal and psychological factors that directly created many of his rogues and by working to remedy them in order to prevent future suffering. He created Wayne Gardens, an apartment complex that houses former Arkham patients who have recently completed their sentences, and provides some tenants with jobs at his company so that they may earn a stable income without needing to return to past criminal habits and becoming trapped in a cycle detrimental to their rehabilitation. 

When a newly-released Harley Quinn found herself in Arkham Asylum again after a mishap while buying a dress resulted in a very bad day, Batman brought the dress to her and told her he’d had a bad day once too. When Ventriloquist completed his treatment at Arkham and began a new life outside of crime, Batman warned off the henchmen who attempted to gaslight him into believing the Scarface puppet had returned. When Baby-Doll wept over her tragic condition and all she had been deprived of in life, Batman comforted her. When Two-Face tried to kill Batman over and over again, Bruce Wayne stood by Harvey Dent and told him that he would never give up on his old friend. 

To claim that Batman is indisputably a character who seeks to punish others for having mental illness is to ignore his advocacy for patient autonomy, his funding of many resources and treatment options, his protection of former patients when they are at their most vulnerable, his recognition that recovery is not linear or seamless, and–above all–his dedication to preserving the lives of Gotham’s citizens, including those who have occupied cells in Arkham.

That is who Batman is, not a rich boy bully who wears a cape because it gives him a free pass to terrorize anyone who can’t afford to attend therapy. 

A compilation of all the Halloween parody Splatoon art I did. My biggest regret is not naming the Harry Potter one ‘Splatform 9 ¾’, and now I shall live with that regret for the rest of my life.

I’m not sure will I be doing this again next year but we shall see lol. Also I tried to keep a main color theme for each piece, there’s red, green, blue, and (attempted) black. ID

bunch of experimental splat stuff from twitter i dont think ive posted here yet

still working through umineko, just reached a really 😏 part in episode 4 and

Purple evening

I DON’T KNOW WHEN I PUBLISHED THIS UNANSWERED ASK LOL

But here you’ve my answer:

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I drew this thinking of “a Zelda for Botw” but after that I tried to imagine how Zelda will trurly be for Botw and then I colapsed