This machine kills AI

yall do realize just because something has been a target of misogynistic criticism, that doesn't make stanning it completely uncritically in response some kind of revolutionary feminist praxis. right.

like i hate to break this to you but plenty of people who dislike taylor swift have better reasons for it than 'she's a successful woman'. plenty of people who dislike twilight aren't just jumping on a decade plus-old hate train because 'teenage girls like it'. pure personal taste aside, someone pointing out the racism in your girlboss media of choice is not the same as an incel frothing at the mouth over a woman minding her own business while having fun, and you're frankly telling on yourself if you're equating those two people

couldnt stop fucking thinking about this all day at work

So kh fans what’s the lore behind utada hikaru being able to dual wield two keyblades? Who had to seek refuge inside utada’s heart?

All of us when we heard Simple and Clean for the first time, that is who

Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

the daughter of the embodiment of darkness which ate the original sun and moon and almost ate the devil.

That's not important. What is important is that it was a danger to Mister Frodo.

I was expecting anything but not Bard

Skeletor has forever destroyed our ability to come up with voices for skeleton characters.

her armpits would NOT be clean shaven

So I'm about to play in this LARP in the fall where my character follows two gods, Ebb and Flow, twin gods of the sea, and I am ABSOLUTELY putting this seal on some props and hoping someone asks me who Alasagn is.

genuinely mystified by the kind of person that would produce this image and not realize "oh, I'm being fucking ridiculous"

personally, when I see someone press a heart-shaped button to denote that They Like My Work, the conclusion I draw is that They Like My Work. but perhaps I'm the crazy one, and I should instead be taking it as one step above "shooting me three times in the head."

#liking it is a bookmark for them. no one else sees it. it's a nod and acknowledgement my work was seen. clearly not good enough for#them to share. not good enough to bring me more business more clients more customers. how does that like button help the artist#or help the writer? it doesn't. call me cynical if you want but i've been here long enough to know the like button is only a bookmark.

listen. I get it. I am also Out Here, chronically unemployed and trying to make ends meet by monetizing my music. I also get frustrated and demoralized when something I worked hard on fails to gain traction.

that being said:

this attitude can only ever corrode your connection to your own work. "not good enough to bring me more business" - I'm sorry, but strangers on social media do not owe you free marketing. meanwhile, what you call "only a bookmark" signifies that your work appealed to them, even if they didn't reblog it. isn't that the fucking point of doing any of this? to make someone else's day a little richer, or to make them feel seen?

to put it in simpler terms:

if you consider someone liking your work "meaningless," why are you making art in the first place?

really baffling phenomenon on this post: a significant number of people are reblogging it, and then disagreeing with me in the tags without actually adding any of that to the post itself

I feel like it undermines your argument a little when you don't even seem to understand the Basic Functionality of a reblog. just my 2 cents

No one is morally obliged to give you free dopamine or exposure. It’s okay to prefer reblogs to like—I know I do! But it’s absurd to throw a fit about it.

#as an artist & writer i get it! i love reblogs!#but i actively DO NOT reblog posts that include guilt trippy little segments about likes being worthless#its social media not a morally charged email spam chain for gods sake

Look at this fucked up thing

@baddywronglegs

*beautiful thing

Centicorn

that crying “babe I’m so horny!” meme but the response references the queen’s funeral holiday

so by the “babe I’m so horny” meme, you mean

aya getting shouted at by her dad, which turned into

the crying anime girl meme, which has now apparently become

image language is wild

why does she look like a dog, she practically has a snout, do all anime girls look like that in profile, is the lack of nose an illusion

Starting in the early 80s, there was a transition toward more simplified noses, ultimately manifesting in the tendency around 2003 to draw characters without any noses at all. There are two reasons for this: one is that the nose is not very expressive most of the time (unless you’re showing, like, snot streaming from nostrils) so there’s no point in spending space and effort on them that you could instead use on the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth. The other is that “big nose” codes for “white” – and if noses are barely drawn, any noticeable nose at all counts as “big”.

The transitional stage – the level of nose simplification that’s been normal for most characters in most styles from the mid 80s to today (and in some works in the 70s, like those of Leiji Matsumoto) – is to show a nose as a slightly bent line. This is great because realistic noses drawn straight on are very complicated. When a character is drawn in profile, though, the nose becomes visible as a protrusion! Until the 90s this was a major difficulty whenever a character was turning their head: how do you draw a nose that doesn’t draw attention to itself, even if a character smoothly turns their head? The solution was to treat the nose as a slight protrusion in the contour of the character’s face.

This became normal because of the specific problems of animation, but because characters and stories are constantly moving between anime and manga, manga artists quickly adopted it, and it’s been normal for manga to draw noses in the style shown above since the 90s, even when the manga in question would never be adapted to animation.

While it can look funny out of context to somebody not immersed in the style, the underlying logic is actually an attempt to support telling more serious stories. In the 50s and 60s, when practically all manga was light comedy, the style was much more cartoony and characters had a wide variety of probosces, and characters often showed their emotions the same way that they’d be shown in looney toons: dramatic and physically-impossible symbolic mutations of the entire body. The “bishojo style” that is the primary stylistic influence for almost all anime and manga today is the synthesis of two movements happening in manga in the 70s: shojo comics, aimed at teenage girls, were beginning to get emotionally and intellectually complex (in part because the genre, being dismissed as trash, was not getting much oversight from editors and censors, and became a place where politically dissident women, many of them lesbians, thrived and did the artistic experiments that had been getting them kicked out of theater and literary magazines), and to support these stories that were focused in the inferiority of characters and their relationships, a style where bodies were simplified & faces were made larger and more expressive was developed; at the same time, some mostly-male manga artists were annoyed by the lightness and child-centrism of manga and started a movement for darker-and-grittier comics called gekiga, where characters were drawn with realistic proportions and both the style & content was influenced largely by American action movies. These two movements merged into the bishojo style, which was used to sell more complex manga to older teens and adults; “bishojo” means “beautiful woman” & reflects that these comics were sold to men through the sex appeal of attractive characters & to women based on their grace and fashion sense (or at least, that was how many people thought about it at the time). In this new bishojo style, it would be normal to have serious and grounded dramas – and suddenly seeing a nose pop out of somebody’s face can break immersion. (As late as 1995, some anime kept more realistic nose sizes and suffered for it – ex., Escaflowne.)

This is an example of “normal” manga in the 60s (Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis). Note the noses & general proportions.

Here’s some gekiga:

Here’s some classic 70s shojo (They Were Eleven, a classic space opera):

And here’s some goofy-ass noses in the 90s, Escaflowne:

Noses and nostrils are sometimes shown, for comedic effect (FLCL):

But are often more likely to be omitted (Nichijou):

mosaic on a former carpet factory (1978) by s. lewkowicz kowary, poland

I am a violin maker learning to tattoo so here is a banana with the decoration from the Hellier Strad violin

young artist posting your work online, heed my warning. im holding your face so gently in my hands, you have to stop caring about numbers right now and start caring about making the weirdest and most self-indulgent art you possibly can

STOP listening to the demon of capitalism and START listening to the angel of hedonism, i love you i believe in you keep making what you love forever ok?

“yaoi couple”, “yuri couple”, and “normal couple” are all valid homestuck names

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

I am in love with you /p

What about the one with the princess locked in a tower learning to become a wizard? That’s lived in my mind for years and I haven’t seen it in a long time

Oh, love that story, adding it to the list: 20. Princess Talia and adding a few more contenders 21. Thyme 22. The Monster under the Bed 23. A Meaningful Death 24. Humans are unstoppable…until they aren’t 25. The Monster under the Fridge 26. Antler Guy 27. Cleric slamming healing spells

Adding a few more I remembered:  28. The Frog and the Scorpion 29. HSTHETE 30. The First Witch in the World 31. Imagine that Oceans were replaced by Forests  32. A Faerie taking a Name  33. The Dragon on the Farm  34. Synovus & Menace  35. Raising the Anti-Christ  36. Aliens vs. Flora & Fauna of Earth (pretty sure there are even more additions to the original post but I had this one saved)  37. Doctors without Borders…in Space!  38. The Villain-Wrangler  39. The Last Contact  40. The 100 Parent-Point Children  41. And the Heavens Wept  42. The Night Gentleman  43. The Serpent God and their Priestess 

44. No One Showed Up for the Last Storytime

Wow! @writing-prompt-s contributing to like half of these!

I can hardly take any credit for these stories! But I love sharing them. Unfortunately I cannot read all the prompt responses so please tag me if you want me to reblog a story that resonated with you so I can give it a little boost :)