Some retro icons from the current and previous commission batches. I love making these LOL #rockart

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

"I Contain Multitudes" This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today. The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

I think media made it weirdly taboo, or a sign of personal failure. Someone can be disinterested in you romantically and sexually, and not provide a good or logical reason. And it just means they weren't available, and you should move on to find someone, who is.

If someone wants to be friends, they find you emotionally and intellectually compatible. This is great. And saves you embarrassment and time seeking romantic and sexual response from someone who doesn't reciprocate it. Why is it treated as a failure.

So many guys would rather pine after a woman, rather than ask them out, fearing the Friend Zone. Friendships are extremely close, emotionally intimate, long-term relationships. Why a deciding factor in you pursuing a relationship hinges on your access to her private parts.

Heyoooo I'm a page artist for the upcoming Wildflowers c!Tommy zine! I had so much fun with this so be sure to look at everyone else's pieces too once its released www.tumblr.com/dsmp-zines

Huge shout out to @redrumsketches.bsky.social youtu.be/zMZzumAMIUc?...

More reasons to be anti-AI

Just a reminder that class-based inequality didn't exist at all for hundreds of thousands of years after the earliest H. sapiens fossils first appear. There is nothing "natural" about hoarding wealth. Rather, sharing & exchange to create bonds of solidarity are more the norm.

"Dream Defender" Digitally painted in CSP

this man got on national tv and told the president to come say it to his fucking face

"In a short story published online this past weekend, Atwood slammed MAGA-ish Premier Danielle Smith, “selfish rapacious capitalism,” Ayn Rand fanboys, and the hypocrisy of paying “no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies.”

Really not enjoying the combination of “nobody has a job” and “everything is expensive now”

Harm caused by your refusal to take action (voting) is blood on your hands.

Biodiversity is bad, actually. I think there should be one big bug that rules everything.

Other people shipping: "I NEED these two to FUCK or I'll KILL MYSELF!" Me shipping: "I want these two to stay in each other's lives in a meaningful way."

Something that's always helped me parse this is that improving the lives of the people is the #2 priority for a lot of socialists. Replacing the system with socialism in the #1 priority, and they viscerally resist anything that makes that harder. If it does #2, but not #1, they don't want it.

Unsurprisingly, Gender Queer is on this list. I'm so frustrated that Canadian teachers, students, and librarians are having to deal with this same shit we're dealing with here in the US. Canadian authors you can join @authorsabb.bsky.social !

I'm going to get into this in a future video, but one aspect of storytelling I have never gotten along with is emotional blackmail. The concept being that a character fails to garner any real sympathy from the audience either because they're an asshole, annoying, or just dull-

Okay THIS is actually sadder than the Cracker Barrel people and it's kinda sad to realize that there's a non-zero chance someone in the government cares about this

I know he has that speech about how critics are bad, but it's a Brad Bird movie, he's always on this "let special people act with no restrictions" shit, and it's produced by a massive corporation which wants consumers dumb and critically uninformed. The rest of the character is damn fucking good.

I always liked the food critic in Ratatouille, because that man is a professional. "Sir, Gusteau's is popular again." "The fuck? I thought I tanked that thing. I guess I'd better go check it out again." "Oh shit, this is delicious! What a turnaround!"

youtu.be/7jv5JHJSaC0?... important viewing

Lil Nas X deserves more shows of solidarity and support from the LGBTQ+ community. Lil Nas is a Gay man facing an unjust arrest and imprisonment over a mental health crisis. Gay men are unfairly targeting lately, and Black Gay men are targeted by racist policing and homophobia. Nas deserves support!

Propaganda doesn't work on you without your complete and total consent.

It's always funny when I criticze a character who is either a teenager or an abuse victim for being poorly written and some chud comes in like "SO YOU JUST HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR ABUSED CHILDREN?!" Like, do you think emotional blackmail works? Do you think that's a good substitute for thinking?

thank you everyone who still makes art despite everything

Seriously fuck Rocky Horror and fuck the rancid mummy that made it.

New piece with @stuartsumida.bsky.social, Kristi Curry-Rogers, and Kenshu Shimada, and help from @magratnj.bsky.social : theconversation.com/fossils-are-...

Advocacy groups who primarily target adult material that glorifies or tolerates violence against women are getting cause and effect completely backwards. Adult material, advertising, and the like don't create misogyny, they merely profit from it.

the key to enjoying ur fave media is to interact w fandom as less as possible

So the question is, will the helleverse fandom, the Homestuck crowd and the undertalers realize they are all cut from the same cloth and congregate like the superwholock crowd,? Or will they fixate on minute differences and quibbles to justify spewing bile at each other?

Support the creatives in your life as much as possible right now. Every single one I know is struggling *exceptionally* hard lately, myself included

"Terminally Online" as an insult is amazing because it's people who are terminally online insulting other people who are terminally online to hide the fact that they're terminally online. And then there's Terminally Online (Mobile) which is this but 20 times worse.

Homestuck vivzipop animated series with Toby Fox sounds like a tornado of 9/11s for discourse people

Alright, beautiful people! Still trying to come up with something before Monday/Tuesday. I have my EP for sale for only $10 bucks, and each purchase aids me as I try to stay afloat until next payday :3 it-is-i-twotoneinc.bandcamp.com/album/hello-...

Save the link ^^ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A common motif in high fantasy is "cosmic forces". Gods, Titans and the like. And in every case the cosmic forces are 1. The most boring part of the story. 2. Universally evil in spite of the author.

It was only a matter of time, but Canada has joined the censorship bandwagon with Bill S-209. Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell. www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...

Uprooting the very concept of misogyny and dehumanization, which as it turns out is the backbone of much of our economy and way of life, is actually quite hard. So people don't like doing it. Like how "not voting to send a message" is easier than getting off the couch.

I feel like redrawing some funny cat photos lately #art #liminalspace #catdrawing

I've been thinking about this dialog a lot lately from Stray.

If I could delete one genre of YouTube video from existence, it would be "Millennial/Zoomer overreacted to the last three TikTok videos they saw"

You do not in fact have to hand it to South Park, the glibertarian fucksticks that directly contributed to the political climate that brought us Trump. You don't get to promote almost 30 years of "caring about things is stupid" and then get applause for finally coming down off your fence.

I’m gonna sound old but i wish Pokemon stayed 2D or at least kept fixed camera angles

please gush, please comment, please ask questions, please know it means so much when people do! Things are so hard for a lot of us artists right now, this is such a perfect way to support us. And free!

so a new trailer dropped for Z-A. thats nice i guess. Someone call me when chikorita’s evolvutions are dropped so i can determine if that'll get me to buy this dogshit game

MY EP TITLED "HELLO, MY NAME IS..." IS FINALLY READY FOR ALL OF THE VIBES!!!! it-is-i-twotoneinc.bandcamp.com/album/hello-...