youtu.be/BE4tSd1pE3Y?... come watch me cringe at some old ocs #youtube #characterdesign #originalcharacters #artadvice

why do you draw? (1/3)

youtu.be/MY-0TYbSfNM?... new animation just dropped #animation #musicvideo #myart #youtube #2000snostalgia

And every positive word still said about that franchise contributes to keeping it relevant, even if you don't financially support her.

youtu.be/HZVbYOcax7Y?... i made a lil video of me judging gen 1 pokemon for 17 minutes #pokemon #youtube #artist #pokemonfanart

gamefreak bring them back #pokemon #pokemonfanart #myart #fanart

i imagine this is what its like on my island #animalcrossing #animalcrossingnewhorizons #acnh #myart

mourning the youth i coulda had #transgenderdayofremembrance #transgender #transmasc #myart

#3157 A helpful tutorial

youtu.be/uN_LXPKdZUg?... heyooo we just be making tiktoks today #youtube #commentary #tiktok

Normalize this reaction #art #artists

theres nothing scarier than your teenage interests being revived from the dead #danandphil #myart #phan #halloween

Let's talk about barreleye fishes in family Opisthoproctidae. Take a minute to take in the image below. What look like 'eyes' above the tiny toothless mouth are in fact chemosensory organs equivalent to nostrils. The EYES are the green domes INSIDE THE TRANSPARENT HEAD. And they look *up*...

new video is up! #youtube #artist #speedpaint youtu.be/5OqgklhJpZ8?...

I shouldn’t *know* the scores of certain games before reviews are even out, but there’s an enforced belief that some series/studios are so inherently good they deserve automatic praise. Deviation isn’t tolerated, it’s violently mobbed. Going with such a strong flow is easy.

I don’t blame any critic who pulls a few punches to avoid the mob. I’d be shocked if it doesn’t happen - it’s a trivial thing to do compared to threats from unhinged people. It’s what fans want. They literally attack critics for not pandering to them, not *anticipating* their uniform standards.

Day 3 of #aceweek and day I-don't-know-how-many of me trying to best articulate the issues I have with how asexual and aromantic characters are treated in fandom, forever hoping to get the point across #asexual #aromantic #shipping

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

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