on my knees begging you to please look up “squick” if you don’t know it and help bring it back to fandom space by using it. it’s a valuable word we’re missing that through normalizing could solve some of the more prevalent communication issues.

squick = “this makes me uncomfortable I do not want to see it.” without the moral judgement and everything else that blows it out of proportion. a thing can make you uncomfortable, even deeply so, and not be problematic.

“this character did a problematic thing-” its a story helen, commonly including things like conflict and drama

I wanted to see him shirtless so i edited the screenshot. And also his knife holster thing while shirtless.

@pseudowho what was that about a smooth operator wearing only a harness?

Oh my stars

For Nanami Kento fucking you in exactly this uhm...outfit?

Please see Daylight Robbery here, a cucking fic where Nanami Kento is Mr.Stealyogirl

This was hot

just drawing uhh idk for how long hopefully a long time. I basically have to relearn how to draw lolol also I lost all my assets so my layout is all stand-in teehee please don't mind that

work along side me or whatever

stream done!! hope to come by again later!

Why is it necessary that a piece of art "condemns" or "normalizes" something. Is it not enough for art to say "here are some fucked up people in some fucked up situations for your enjoyment"? The art doesn't have to judge them and neither do you. It's for your enjoyment.

"This art is Acceptable because it portrays the bad thing as BAD" "this art is Forbidden because it portrays the bad thing as GOOD" well fuckers I'm engaging with art that portrays the bad thing as A Spectacle. Come engage with me.

they should invent joints that don’t hurt

i genuinely hope that boop day inspires everyone to interact more with other tumblr users. because it’s clearly way more fun this way!! even once the boop button is gone, there’s still asks, tag and ask games, comments, dms, fuck it let’s bring back blog rates i don’t care. part of the reason that tumblr is dying is that its way less social than it used to be. let’s fix that!!

I still love mermaids and draw mermaids as my weird half hybrid lmao but im glad people like it

I didnt delete that post when i switched over blogs so my side blog name is still on that post lol

People send me such nice messages honestly tho it's so sweet thank you

If you’ve ever wondered how reposting hurts artists- yesterday I found a post from 2012ish featuring one of my Sherlock/Doctor Who pieces. That post had 17,604 notes. It wasn’t my post. My post of that art had 0 notes.

Apparently I saw the post once when it was at 6k because an artist I admired reblogged it, but at that stage I was very unwell & not experienced enough with Tumblr to realise what effect it might have.

Looking through the notes now I see that in the six years since then-

If you like an artwork that you find off tumblr, please, please I am begging you search for the artist’s name and see if they do actually have a Tumblr you could reblogged from instead. If you’re an artist search your username(s) every so often to see if your work has been taken.

A few hundred quid might not seem like a lot, but that’s a few months of income for me

"READ MY DNI" no. use your block button like an adult. i'm not scrolling through the many-paragraphs-long pinned posts of every blog i reblog something from. if you insist certain types of people aren't welcome in the notes of your posts then it's your responsibility to curate that. or choose a closed social media platform like facebook or instagram. or go and live in a barn away from humanity if you really don't like sharing the world with people who are different from you

Is it just me or is every arcana love interest from a different genre

Yeah, and I think it was to give each route a unique flavor;

Asra - Fantasy Paranormal Romance*

Nadia - Mystery/Thriller

Julian - Period** Murder Procedural

Portia - High Fantasy Adventure

Lucio - Buddy Road Trip

Muriel - Hero's Journey***

They all have romance, fantasy, and mystery elements of course, but the tone and focus of each is very different.

*The one on the tin, basically

**Not actually a historical period just vibes

***Done poorly

The idea for variety is interesting but the different vibes is so wack.

Like looking at some other dating games there's like a big coherent vibe/genre to it.

One dating game (that no longer exists) was centered around like fantasy underground stuff (like hell or hades) (Idk what to call it sorry, like also werewolves and zombies and undead.) But each love interest was a different archetype you could persue. I persued this shy nerd scientist zombie man in the game lmao

Anyway, but i suppose that's what has arcana so disorganized for me. Each love interest doesnt seem to with the whole picture? Interesting