Everyone who tried to draw around me and started drawing LOVED it at the beginning because of their QUICK IMPROVEMENT. Then quit when they hit The Wall™️. But it's when you hit The Wall™️ that you NEED to push through with practice!! And you gotta do it for yourself, because it's ALWAYS worth it! 😤

I broke my9games.com down by era. 1-3 were the first games I ever played, 4-6 were formative games for me as a teenager, then the remaining 3 spaces were for college. #my9games

please keep some money in your pocket for the crowdfundr launching April 1st (less than a month away!!!) for the sequel to THE NIGHT PRINCE & THE ROSEFINCH!!! I can't wait to bring everyone even more demonic court politics and sex magic and fallen angels subjected to humiliating pleasure

(Black Butler spoilers) . . . I think it’s funny that r!Ciel was like “I have always wanted to properly go to war against my brother” and then o!Ciel has proceeded with a thus far unmitigated curb stomping.

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

Weird little hang-up I have is the mainstreamification of the term fujoshi outside of anime fandom because it feels like it treats the practice as somehow a Weird Foreign Import(TM) rather than something people have been doing globally, independently of each other, for 60 years now

me wen i use my brain haha

LRP I’ve been thinking about the state of writing and fanfic in fandom, based on personal observations over the last year or so. I’m sure it varies by fandom, but it’s also based on how I have seen others in my general circle talk about writing and fanfic.

ik commenting is hard, but u don't have to write a dissertation- even “this was amazing” or “i loved this” makes writers happy. it feels like some people treat fic writers like untouchable writing machines and don’t realize they’re fellow fans, who likely would love chatting abt their work with u

listen i love ao3 as much as the next guy but ive seen people quit fic writing over the past few years because people comment and engage with authors way less, and then everyone still freaks out when ao3 goes down- if a fic is irreplaceable to u, let the author know!

Hey everybody! While AO3 is down, why don't you head over to www.queerliberationlibrary.org and check out some published gay shit on there for free, too! @queerliblib.bsky.social

me: writing is my place of peace me writing:

“your email finds me REALLY BAD ACTUALLY”

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

good posts from the other site again

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

She’s not a bad person…she’s just no longer human and has prodigiously bad impulse control…

Anyway, pay your manga translators (and everybody else involved) a living wage and give them royalties, for fuck's sake. You're bigger than ever and can afford rates many times bigger than the 90s on the bestsellers topping the fucking NYT charts. Embarrassing you refuse to take care of your own.

“Assist translators in translating manga” aka make their jobs 50x harder and pay them less. Absolute fucking garbage.

hello if you like me are feeling real sour about seven seas getting bought by an AI translation company then that company's contact form is right here so you can explain to them directly that you will never buy any seven seas titles again mediado.jp/english/cont...

Neat, burn everything down, why the fuck not?

"Error;404" - Pokemon Happy 30th to franchise of my childhood and beyond. ✨️💛✨️

it fucken WIMDY

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production. you have until March 23rd to comment. i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

if i were a coach for a baseball team, & we were losing by the 7th inning, & my speech to them in the lockers was "We had a chance to win, & we fucking blew it. We're awful. Aight game time," i'd be a pretty bad coach, right? ...anyways, SAYING "WE'RE COOKED, ITS OVER" IS NOT ACTIVISM.

This has to be felt every day; The establishment relies on us losing hope. Do not conflate being exhausted with hope being lost. If you need support, reach out to someone for support, but DO NOT project that emotion onto the whole movement, publicly. Don't post through it or life will pass you by

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

we cannot ever let an evangelical be in charge of anything ever again. no more apocalypse cultists doing anything. absolutely barred from running for town dogcatcher

And you know, you can extend from this to a real important corallary to "Everyone is 12 Now" theory is "There has been a generation-long project to keep people 12." Conservative news and opinon outlets, regressive mass audience entertainment products, etc. all propagandize a chilidish worldview.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I feel like younger people don't realize that the internet wasn't always optimized solely to make you as angry and miserable as possible, and people are having a lot of nostalgia for 2000s internet vibes now because it wasn't like that back then

Difficult thing done…………….soon……………I shall have most of my brain back……………. (Dog is also now recovering from multiple days of treatments and doing well 💛)

!!!FINAL EVO OF POMBON HAS LEAKED!!! -name is Pompeii -first Pokémon to have a 0 Speed stat -Fire/Fighiting typing

When you buy into the idea that "porn is evil" then anything deemed porn becomes evil. We are so afraid of sex in this country that it is effectively a tool to control the masses. This is (part of) why sex education is so important. Sex should not be some kind of boogeyman.

Today is a great day to donate to the ALCU of Kansas! www.aclukansas.org

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Having one hell of a week doing something really difficult mostly solo and I can tell I’m handling it great because I just sobbed through the last third of The Iron Giant in a hotel room.

into the dark 👑 #ツイステ #twstファンアート #ヴィル #vil #vilschoenheit

"But I hate ICE and support trans rights and etc etc" if you aid in the suppression of art, you are a fascist. One of the textbook markers of a fascist state is the suppression of art it deems "degenerate". If you have one empathetic cell left in your brain, you'll start digging into the history

If you're doing callout posts about artists creating fictional taboo content, you may not consider yourself a fascist, but you are one. You are their stupid tool at the bare minimum. The good news is you can stop doing that at any time

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

Ramadan has started, and the World Central Kitchen has a program to distribute food aid to people in Gaza. Each kit for Ramadan contains nearly 30 pounds of halal—enough for up to 70 meals. If you have spare funds, please consider a donation of $60 to assist the people still struggling in Gaza.

LRP the level of sheer paranoia on display should be too embarrassing to print.

This should have never made it past the pitch stage. Should've been shot down & the contributor blacklisted for even suggesting it. WTF happened here, @wired.com? Cancelling sub over this bc even if retracted, trust is hard to re-earn these days for lgbtq+ folks who keep getting pummeled.

something abled people don't get is you can have just one day a week where you are too sick to work, and that's enough to disqualify you from nearly all full-time jobs. it doesn't take a lot

the biggest hoodwink is using ai to refer to both machine learning and LLMs

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