Lover of Dragons and Birds

The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:

-what if this bad thing was good instead

-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want

-would that be fucked up or what

-I think that shit's hot

"they make me insane" and it's my own ocs

i think the eclipse should be a paid holiday for everyone. even in places that cannot witness it directly. it's special. all places of business should be closed today out of respect,. for the sun. and the moon.

hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)

As much as I do love boobs, they are entirely a social construct. I really think we need a strong revival in the free the nipple movement because the concept of topless nudity existing for some people but not others is frankly insane. The breasts of fat men, men who have gynecomastia, are allowed to be seen, despite being more or less the same anatomy as afab people with breasts. In order for an afab trans person to be topless, they must get a surgery to remove breast tissue BUT if a cis woman gets the same surgery (double masectomy) for health or personal reasons while still identifying as a woman they can NOT be topless! The enforcement of topless nudity laws is unclear, based largely on opinion and used selectively to hurt minority groups (see: the trans woman who was denied a legal gender marker change and decided to go topless as a result, then was arrested for being topless despite the fact that in the eyes of the law she was a man)

Bonus points if you share why

“There’s no more good art” you are scared of weird people

You are scared of love. You are scared of being judged for your love. You would rather count flaws to feel righteous than to actually listen for the spark of humanity and connection that art gives us. You want art with no risks, no mistakes, written by someone who has done nothing but sit in an office eating corn flakes to survive.

This post is your reminder that you are not obligated to blog about current events.

Things are bad. Really bad. Do not let people guilt trip you into tormenting yourself even further over the fact that things are bad. Doomscrolling is not activism.

If you're just on tumblr to blorbopost or reblog pretty pictures, you are not harming people by inaction.

You are not a bad person for not dedicating every aspect of your life and leisure space to whatever disgusting mask-off attack on human life and dignity some government has decided to enact.

Take action where you can, but don't confuse doomscrolling and digital self harm for action.

If you need to lose yourself in blorboposting, go for it.

If you need to log off for the day, whether it's to take irl action or to protect what little sanity any of us have left over the past 7 years, then by all means, do.

Morale is important. Hope is important. Small joys keep us from burning out completely in times like this. Do not let any "if you don't reblog this I'm judging you" guilt trip convince you otherwise.

Even investigative open source journalists at places like Bellingcat, who make a living sifting through this type of information, take breaks while dealing with this and make sure they have downtime. There are specific methods for reducing the amount of vicarious trauma that people get from seeing imagery of violence, and mixing that stuff in with the fun little escapist hobbies of one's tumblr is not on the recommended list.

Two links I have been sending around lately:

Bellingcat, on the risks of open source research: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2022/11/23/how-to-maintain-mental-hygiene-as-an-open-source-researcher/

Synecdochic on how to block out seeing things related to current events, or on mitigating the trauma of seeing it if you feel you must stay informed: https://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html

Oh my gods I want to double triple score underline that Bellingcat link as incredibly smart about vicarious trauma. Reposting it: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2022/11/23/how-to-maintain-mental-hygiene-as-an-open-source-researcher/

Thank you very much @sunlit-skycat for posting it; it was written about the war in Ukraine but goes absolutely just as much for current conflicts and everything else.

Remember that you don't help by breaking yourself to no purpose. If anything, you literally make things worse; you create someone else that needs help.

bumping your OCs ages up every few years because they’re starting to feel like infants to you. reblog if you agree. 

if your personal least fave isn’t on here reblog and tell me what it is!! but also reblog anyways because it’s nice :]

yeah for clarification i’m not talking about guys who were kinda mean once i’m talking about villains who are like. straight up war criminals who put entire races or universes in danger of extinction and villains who are accepted into the main gang with no protest from anyone despite literally trying to kill them for fun. things that deserve actually jail time. like, if someone tried to wipe out your entire family, it’d be kinda fucked up for all your friends to just decide they’re chill now even though you have no proof they’ve actually reflected or changed 👍 i agree there still needs to be that work but when they used to be such a monumental piece of homicidal garbage it works better when paired with some sort of sacrifice or consequences. this doesn’t necessarily have to be a formal sanction, it can just be realizing the full scope of their actions and dealing with the guilt that comes with that, but there’s gotta be something

if your personal least fave isn’t on here reblog and tell me what it is!! but also reblog anyways because it’s nice :]

as always, reblog to get more eyes on this post. :P