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Raygirl's Ramblings

@raygirlramblings / raygirlramblings.tumblr.com

AKA - Dizzymosquito Rayman fan since 1995.  Cynical optimist. Likes bees, kitties, manatees and pigeons.  I got 99 problems but Rayman Shipping Discourse ain't one [icon drawn by 1funn]
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Commission prices - 2024

Any questions about availability and/or prices please DM me.

WOW this piece was a job.  I’ve been meaning to update my prices sheet for months and now, with a fresh new year ahead of us, I have finally got it finished!  I have a lot of options for different types of art available as shown above, and a variety of pricing options.  Because of past experience I’ve had to enforce some rules on certain types of art because of the amount of work I was putting into art that was not reflected in the prices.

Obviously if you have any questions about commissioning me you can always message me directly, and if you see a piece of art in my #my arts tag in a style you’d like to see your characters drawn in then ask me about it and I can give you a price depending on the character and complexity of the piece!

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asneakyfox

one big thing i think people outside fandom (like, all fandoms, fandom in general, not any particular one) tend to misunderstand is they know it's a subculture of people who are weirdly deeply invested in fictional media, and they hear about drama caused by people in those subcultures being unhinged in not-fun ways, and they think the unhingedness comes from the fact of being overinvested in works of fiction.

which is a natural assumption, but in my experience that's not really the case? like in my experience the drama llamas in fandom are usually not the ones who are just genuinely very deeply into the fiction. i've known people who are basically thinking about star trek or x-men comics or supernatural pretty much 100% of their free time and ime that type of person is usually very nice and surprisingly functional in their regular life. when someone's a constant nexus of fandom drama it's usually not that they are obsessed with the actual work of fiction the fandom is about, it's at least one of the following:

  • what they're obsessed with is not the source material but their unhealthy parasocial relationships with one or more of the people who created it
  • what they're obsessed with is not the source material but some elaborate shared-universe subset of fanfic about it that's only barely related to the original at this point, and/or an esoteric reading-against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material (often if the canon is active and ongoing this leads to becoming actively hostile toward it for its inevitably increasing failure to conform to their preferred fanon)
  • what they're obsessed with is not the source material but the fandom itself and gathering clout within it, so that the source material basically only exists to them as a tool for scoring points in increasingly arcane fandom disputes

and very often you get the same person doing 2 and sometimes even all 3 of these, and that's where the trouble really starts

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$15 Sketch Commission for Palestine

Another sketch commission done for @raygirlramblings! As promised, 70% of the commission fees have been donated to @CareForGaza. If you're interested in getting art AND helping the people of Palestine, consider commissioning me!

Look at my precious beautiful girl 😭😭😭 is she not ABSOLUTELY PERFECT?! Agh this is such a wonderful piece and worth every penny for a delightful artist and a worthy cause. My lovely Eleanor looks so thoughtful and gentle. Really nailed down her personality and soft expression 💖💖💖

Seriously go and commission @marquainequeen you will NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. 10/10 service and of course a portion of the funds go to help those in need!!!

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nicolauda

Rhianna Pratchett confirming her father wouldn't be a """gender critical""" activist (whatever the hell those GCs stand for) if he were still alive

The GCs are Terfs. A specific type of transphobe. Quite a few British celebrity got recruited to their ranks and they have the money and clout to do a lot of damage unfortunately.

Terry passed away before Rowling started her downward spiral and played a significant role in creating the current toxic atmosphere around Trans rights in England . It is good to see that his daughter ,who is also a writer, stands up for human rights.

That’s despicable trying to “recruit” someone who’s DEAD. Not to mention there’s NOTHING in Pratchett’s books—including the ones of essays, articles, and speeches—to suggest he join in if he was alive.

And obviously his own kid would know his private opinions so hopefully the assholes will see her tweet and back the fuck off.

(GC stands for “gender critical”, when you see that it usually means that you’re talking to/about terfs who are trying to rebrand their image).

For those of you who are wondering who else the original tweet is referring to, they are talking about Margaret Atwood, a very prominent feminist author (probably best known for The Handmaid’s Tale). Because she is a feminist the terfs assumed that she’d naturally side with them, and it came as a massive shock (for some reason) when she very publicly opposed and humiliated all of  terfdom.

But yeah I don’t know how terfs can possibly get through Discworld books without any kind of self-awareness but apparently they do. I’ve also seen them talking about how the Wives in the Handmaid’s Tale are all trans women (solely based on the fact that they are infertile). If you know anything about the plot or even the basic premise you’ll know how ludicrous that suggestion is.

Terf rhetoric basically revolves around throwing shit at the wall and then crawling around in anything that sticks, but the underlying transphobia is always present.

Rhianna Pratchett is the best.

“Terry Pratchett” is now a trending topic on twitter and everyone is just slamming the people who claim he would be transphobic. It’s been really nice to see

Also there’s this

I’d already seen most of this on Twitter, but the Tom Hatfield tweet was new to me and got some laughs.

Also, this is the one that made me get all teary:

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Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

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