More of the lad from the wild west, when cowboys were king (Cowpoke by Colter Wall)

posting all my relatively old art to tumblr now. these two are telepathic and share one braincell

I’m in love with this gif. The way the cat is tucked in and kneads the air. How they immediately reaches for the teddy bear. How it’s lodged into the cat lovingly. The way the cat holds it. The face. The face the cat makes squished up against the toy. The way the cat grips it. The cat looking back on the audience at the end. I could stare at this gif for an hour straight and still be enraptured by it. Fucking Cozy.gif

occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?

egg

i drew it

hey I hope you dont mind I also painted your egg

i also painted the egg hope that's ok

i heard we were painting egg?

I love how this shows how real artists drawing a thing aren't just representing the thing, but showing you what THEY found beautiful in it.

Wow.... so you’re telling me you took an action that resulted in the death of one person...... to save the lives of many people.... who would have died if you did nothing??? that sounds so familiar

this is going viral on the tweeter currently so. for you also. miku is not ai!!

When I read a fanfic I like, the author becomes a mini celebrity to me. So when an author with a work I like kudos’ or comments on my own fanfic I just-

THIS THIS THIS

#i know i've reblogged this before#but i forget the punchline#and it floored me again

the end of this hit me like a truck

I don't know if I'm the first to point this out, but during respectless, when Velvette says "you've got it twisted," her head turns around at a different rate than her body*.

This actually works to confirm a small theory of mine that Velvette's joints work like a doll's do.

Just a neat detail I noticed for the first time!

*to clarify, her head spins around twice while her body only does so once

I know this is meant as a joke, but the reality of it is its not, "oh they don't know how much this should cost." Temu knows exactly how much it should cost from a business standpoint and they're charging how much it should cost.

They reduce the costs of making the items. They do this largely by using slave labor. They've also been stealing designs and not paying the creators, another way to reduce costs. (Plus lower quality items, outsourcing to countries with cheaper business costs, etc.)

And I'm sorry to tell you, but pretty much ALL these super cheap shopping apps are. No business is losing profit just to give you cute clothes. They're making up the extra profit somewhere else.

I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

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