#feathers speaks

[system-of-a-feather]

I will make one tulpacourse post

But if you are someone saying "Tulpamancy is cultural appropriation, you should listen to POC and Buddhists" but also push the line "the only way to be plural is through trauma and DID" then I actually dislike you more than the tulpamancers and you are also 1) being racist or at least incredibly culturally insensitive to POC and Buddhists and 2) are using us as a token to push your narrative and it is very much not appreciated

If you want to have a genuine talk about Buddhism, Cultural Appropriation, Orientalism and what not, we love it. If you want to talk about listening and respecting POC and Buddhist voices, we love it

But if you only care about those topics when it serves your narrative, I unironically find you the more annoying person between two individuals who disrespect Buddhist and AAPI

Sincerely a AAPI Buddhist that engages in most branches of Mahayan Buddhism (Tibetian included)

#feathers speaks #tulpacourse #syscourse

[featheredomen]

fighting the urge every waking minute to just write the nastiest smut about the Ghoul

#fallout tv show #look man it's a struggle #walton goggins as that ghoul is a real fuckin problem #feathers speaks

[lightlysources]

i forgot that i changed my theme without doing anything to it while i was lurking, and that my navigation page isn't linked anywhere anymore, lol. oops.

#feathers speaks #i will fiddle with it someday soon #i also keep thinking about making psds again... #tbqh this blog has always been mostly an archive of things #so idek if i should call myself an rph

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather Previous / Next (part 42)

#birds of a feather #feralnette au #my art #imagine being this bad of a parent. amelie is about to give gabe a new asshole #other than the one he speaks thru

[indecision-s]

i need the people in my life to stop 😁 commenting 😁 on 😁 my 😁 body 😁 !!!!1!!

#tw ed but not sheeran #thinspø #sk1nny aesthetic #@na vent #thin$po #⭐️rving #⭐️ ing motivation #@na motivation #a4a diary #pro an@ #@na rant #@nor3×14 #@nor3xia #4nor3xia #light as a feather #tw ana bløg #🕯️as a feather #🕯️ as a 🪶 #tw ana rant #⭐️vation goals #⭐️ve #j speaks

[cloud-ya]

if we don't want himeko do die just make her immortal lol

#oh i like how this one turned out actually #like she is So Tired. just let her rest already shes being torn apart by honkai energy as we speak #but no! the phoenix thingywants out #you have vibrant feathers sprouting out of a very exhausted woman on verge of death #except what she'll get at best is a temporary state of being turned to ash #honkai impact #murata himeko #phoenix #theresa; guys....we lost himeko #himeko: nuh uh #bird

[featherlouise]

Exploring some concepts for a slightly older Ghost!! I imagine them as about 8-9ish during the game.

I’ve been neglecting them in most of my AUs lmao, I think it’s time for some Ghost centric stuff shxhxjxj (also they’re VERY fun to draw)

After killing the Radiance, the siblings take some time to rest and recuperate, and at some point decide to try and rebuild Hallownest. Hornet takes over Deepnest, taking her rightful place as Queen, while Hollow becomes king of Hallownest. While Ghost is technically the crown prince, it’s more in name than anything, as they would rather run the Path of Pain handcuffed in the dark than have that kinda responsibility (also they’re like. 13 by this point)

Some tidbits about their design and this AU for those interested:

- They resemble their mother more than PK, and as a result their horns are more like branches and grow to resemble antlers!!

- They also have a faint wood grain pattern all over their body

- Vessels typically have small glowing white dots on their bodies, and darker spots on their face and horns (I’ve been referring to them as soul spots and void freckles shbxxn), and you can generally tell whether they’re more proficient in soul magic or void magic depending on how many of either they have!!

(E.g. Hollow has a few void freckles, but they are COVERED in soul spots, meanwhile Ghost has a few soul spots but they have a TON of void freckles).

When they come into their power as Shade Lord, Ghost’s soul spots are swallowed by their void, and as they get older more void freckles appear until their horns are entirely black.

- I like the idea of Ghost’s power as SL showing in their physical form more as they get older, like their mortal body can’t contain their entire being, so it leaks out in the form of wispy void hair, void freckles, etc etc

- When they started rebuilding, there became a sudden need for formal clothing once again, so Hornet raids every closet in the White Palace to cannibalise the different dresses and robes into something presentable (luckily Ghost fits into most of Hornet’s old stuff)

(Assume the White Palace appears again at some point (finding PK’s corpse is a VERY fun time for Holly ahahaha))

- With the discovery of kingdoms beyond the Wastelands (via Silksong), the siblings start reaching out in the hopes of establishing some trade routes, and getting some help with the rebuilding effort

This opens some opportunities for visits from neighbouring royals (and pooossibly some new friends for Ghost, they need to meet people their age lmaooo)

#ghost is very fun to draw like this icl #my art #feather speaks #hollow knight #hollow knight gijinka #the hollow knight #hk pv #pure vessel #hk ghost #little ghost #hk hornet #gijinka #idk what to call this au but there will be more of it ahxbxndj #hk shade lord #the fact that I will have to create an entire separate kingdom for this thing #just so I can give ghost some friends #WORTH IT #we’re so fucking back baby #I’ll think of a name for this au later ahxbxnx #but I am open to suggestions!! #this is being scheduled #so we shall see if it decides to post later on (posts have disappeared on me a few times)

[fabrizio-art]

Death Stare- Dino Doodles

I think crow-like beady eyes on dinosaurs are criminally underused.

Also hooded crows are underappreciated.

This was supposed to be a "scary feathered dinosaurs" piece but turned out cute.

#dinosaurs #digital art #artists on tumblr #paleoart #my art #birds are dinosaurs #birdlike #non-avian dinosaurs #feathered dinosaurs #feathers #creepy #not really #crows #speaking of Hooded Crows play Death's Door #dinosaur art

[camellia-thea]

so.... i finally started watching burrow's end

#feather speaks #burrow's end #dimension 20 #jaysohn burrow's end #lila burrow's end #tula burrow's end #ava burrow’s end #thorn burrow's end #viola burrow's end #i had so much fun drawing these #i started yesterday and i am most of the way through episode three and holy shit #the bear???? what the fuck that's was so awesome #i also. saw tula and fell in love so expect more doodles of her #tired mom energy my beloved #i had to draw thorn looking haunted #done pretty quickly overall #i forgot how to draw stoats kjhgdfhkjfg #i drew them all the time as a kid #that knowledge? gone

[system-of-a-feather]

You know, I understand it is largely part of the nature of it, but I feel mental health communities and people in general don't really talk about the struggles of people with heavy avoidant attachment. Cause honestly, yes by nature of C-PTSD and DID, yes we technically have disorganized attachment and yes, it does fit us, but we identify as a very very VERY heavy avoidant attachment individual an, while I'm not trying to compare cause its different and not a competition, but I do wish there was more of a general understanding for avoidant attachment, how it presents and how to help people with heavy avoidant attachment tendencies feel safe and heal like I see for those with heavy anxious / ambivalent attachment folks.

Like I really wish we had more people talking about it, but like, as someone who theoretically could, I don't even know what Id say and if I did, I don't know if I would say it because #AvoidantAttachment

It's frustrating and if anyone has any input or even any topic points theyre welcome to share but man. All our trauma shit and roadblocks always circle back to this man

Why weren't my parents a little more inconsistently absent and abusive so I could at least be more balanced in my disorganized attachment and sometimes relate to people who have non-avoidant dominant attachment GOD woe is me (JOKING AND BEING MELODRAMATIC)

#alter: riku #alter: fei #feathers speaks #vent #vent tw #syscourse #discourse #discussion #avoidant attachment

[featheredomen]

ooooh no, just did a terrible, terrible thing. checked the xbox store to see how much, hypothetically, Fallout 3 and New Vegas could cost me, kind of bracing myself. forgot they were old games. and there's a sale.

i didn't need the next few days (weeks) of my life, it's fine, it's fine.

#i love fallout 4 #but you know #when you bring out a show dedicated to the franchise as a whole and i love that too #you gotta go back #i wanna understand more of the easter eggs in season 2 as i watch #and more of them in season 1 when i rewatch it for the third/fourth/fifth time #the games are less than $4 each how can i say no?? #feathers speaks

[philipwittebane]

I find it funny how different my two favorite owl house AUs are lmao

@idoodlestuffsometimes @jess-the-vampire

#i speak words #shitpost #the owl house #caleb wittebane #brother’s keeper au #a reverse of feathers and mud au #in one au we have a good ending where philip didn’t stab caleb and Caleb gets to stay with his witch family while Philip figures out the- #boiling isles on his own and becomes a deceptive criminal in the process! fun times and deep conversations with the brothers ensue as they- #struggle to work out their pent up emotions about the other! drama! humor! but Caleb is so happy and free! #and then we’ve got brothers keeper au #which is. uh #not happy and good for Caleb. like at all. #a fantastic au but that man needs a break #in other words we’ve got the best of both worlds and I love it each of these aus are so good

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

#feralnette au #my art #emelie agreste #amelie culpa #felix culpa #adrien agreste #birds of a feather #in which felix infodumps #god the effects i did for their speaking looks terrible small. pls click for big size for better resolution im so sorry besties

[linkspooky]

Remember when everyone kept saying that it was wrong to call the League of Villains a family because they were all just toxic people making each other worse? The same people that said that the league had to be separated and the villains had to be saved by the hero kids in order to get better?

Now that 2/3 of the villain trio is dead, I wonder how that crow is tasting right about now?

#Try not to choke on the feathers #Bnha 424 #Mha 424 #Bnha spoilers #Mha spoilers #Shoto you always planned on taking down your brother nonlethally from the start so your valid #I feel like shoto is the only kid who went in with any sort of plan on how he wanted to save his brother #Spooky Speaks #Salt

[astronomodome]

Tumblr Poll Tournaments & MCYT

So a while ago I made a post expressing my frustration with the way a lot of tumblr poll tournaments seem to exclude mcyt characters- or if they are included, people in the notes are rude about it. The first situation of these- the poll organizer including rules against submitting characters from mcyt- is something I can easily quantify. I've crunched some numbers in order to find out two things:

How common is this phenomenon, really?

Why does this happen in the first place?

A note before I start: I'm not blaming the poll organizers for this, and I don't want anyone to get angry at them for excluding mcyt. At the end of the day, it's up to them to curate what they want their poll to be, and if they don't want to deal with the toxicity that often comes with letting mcyt characters run (or if they just don't like it for whatever reason), that's their decision. Trust me- poll organizers have to put up with a lot of shit already, and I don't want to add to it, regardless of their opinions on mcyt. If any poll organizers recognize their own words in the later part of this overview, they can contact me and I'll remove it. This is also why I have chosen not to identify the blogs from which I took the examples- I mean no harm to any poll organizer. They are a symptom of a much larger problem and they haven't done anything wrong except be a little misinformed at worst.

Excluding mcyt characters from poll tournaments really isn't that big of a deal on its own- though it is frustrating- but it does speak to the larger attitude of the general tumblr population towards mcyt. While not without its flaws, this can be used as a metric to measure the extent of this attitude and maybe get a hint of why it exists.

...Please note, also, that most of these polls date back to around March-June 2023, when poll tournaments were a big thing on Tumblr. Not super outdated, but I still should note that opinions might have changed since then.

Also also, be warned that there are examples below of some organizers being pretty toxic! It's not a whole lot, but if you don't want to expose yourself to that, maybe pass on this post!

With that out of the way, let's get started.

Part One: The Numbers

The first thing I decided to do was figure out a rough percentage of how many poll tournaments have a rule that excludes mcyt characters from being submitted. To get a sample batch of poll blogs, I used one of the blogs that pits the winners of tournaments against each other and checked each blog included in that. This ended up being a more tedious process than I had thought, since there's a lot of variation in the way poll organizers, well, organize. I ended up with 123 blogs sorted into three categories.

The first category included tournaments where a rule for or against mcyt characters wouldn't really make sense, for a variety of reasons. Most commonly, the tournament was between letters of the alphabet or animo acids or government agencies, not fictional characters, so I counted them out. There were also a handful of blogs where the contestants were determined by the organizer, not by nomination at all. Combined, blogs that did not fit my criteria made up 60/123 of my samples.

The second and third categories were the blogs that either had a rule against mcyt characters, or didn't. Most of the blogs I looked through had rules I could find, and some were more thorough about it than others. For my purposes, I counted the blog as a no only if they explicitly had a rule against mcyt characters, or clarified later that they weren't allowed. Most poll blogs didn't mention mcyt at all. (This will become relevant later.)

Of the 63 blogs that fit my criteria, 11 (17.5%) of them had a rule against mcyt characters, while the remaining 52 (82.5%) did not.

To me, this seems like pretty good news! I had honestly expected the percentage of blogs that excluded mcyt to be much higher. This is definitely a good sign! But I wouldn't really jump to assuming that mcyt characters would actually be accepted in all of these blogs. I will explain this in the next part of my research.

Part Two: The Examples

The second thing I wanted to find out with this research was why organizers end up having rules against mcyt in the first place. Is it just the bad reputation the mcyt space has (largely a result of one green man in particular)? Let's look at a few examples of poll rules against mcyt characters. Some of them are from my sample blogs and some of them aren't.

Type 1: Not understanding the difference between real people and characters in mcyt

The majority of the rules against mcyt I saw were of this type, and honestly, it's pretty reasonable. It's a pretty major debate in the mcyt community over whether mcyts' characters are separate enough from their content creators to count as fictional. However, there are a considerable number of mcyt characters who are explicitly stated to be different from their cc in the same way as a character in a movie played by an actor is different from the actor playing them. Excluding all mcyt characters for being 'real people' is just incorrect, though I can kinda understand where the organizers were coming from with this one.

It should also be noted that the vast majority of poll blogs had a rule against submitting real people. There's a possibility that some poll organizers might have lumped mcyt characters as real people even if they didn't specify it explicitly. Therefore, an attempt to actually submit an mcyt character into one of these tournaments might be against the rules based on what the organizer thinks. I have no way to quantify this, which is why I said earlier that the results of my initial test might not be accurate.

Type 2: 'Problematic fandom' (toxicity warning for some of these)

This type of rule is usually broader than just mcyt, but lumps it in with other fandoms known for being associated with bigotry (often hp, which is... yeah i'm definitely not going to argue in favor of harry potter but yikes. really? we're as bad as terfy potter? really.) At least one of them let dsmp characters in with the exception of dream, which is a lot fairer than... some of the others.

If we want to give the organizers benefit of the doubt here, we can say that these rules are made to keep the poll less toxic than it would be otherwise... but to be perfectly honest, some of these might be more about that phenomenon of purity culture that has had a habit of popping up in fandom spaces since forever. That's a whole other conversation I'm not ready to have now, but it comes as no surprise to me that mcyt has become a little taboo in some places (likely to a large extent because of dream and all the drama he's generated). There's also no telling whether the poll organizers in these cases even know that there are other smps besides dsmp... but that's besides the point, since there are other dsmp characters that aren't associated with dream at all. Excluding them reveals a misconception about the mcyt genre anyway. And of course, I think we can all agree that some of these are just pretty rude.

Which brings us to our conclusion.

I feel like a lot of the toxicity towards mcyt as a genre and mcyt characters boils down to people either not really understanding what mcyt is (i.e. mcyt -> minecraft youtubers -> real people) or hearing stuff about dream and assuming the entire mcyt space is reflective of that. Of course, it's a frustrating issue that some people think this way. I think it's nice to be reminded, though, that this sort of thing isn't very widespread. Alongside the bad examples, I saw a lot of organizers confronting their preconceived notions: one organizer let in an mcyt character after admitting their 'unfamiliarity with the source material', another allowed mcyt characters 'on the condition that you can explain how they are a separate character' and a few others fiercely defended mcyt characters against toxicity in their polls. Every day we grow as a community and we can't let a few people with misguided notions of what we are keep us down. Keep watching, keep creating, and as Zedaph once said, It's okay to be silly!

#this ended up being a larger project than i expected. i hope it doesnt ruffle anyone's feathers too much #i don't like dipping my toes into discourse-y stuff but i thought this was pretty fascinating #if anyone has any questions or imput feel free to speak up #i don't bite and i love discussion #mcyt #astro speaks #idk what else to tag this as. i dont want to be spamming fandom tags for this #but i also want people to see it since i worked really hard on it #so uh. i dont like to beg for reblogs but if you find this interesting at all please consider reblogging

[featherlouise]

Hollow storing their nail in their void/inventory and when they need it they pull it outta their chest like a magical girl

#yknow that one genshin lady #the purple one #i think they deserve to have magical girl moments #feather speaks #i think I'm onto something here so #hollow knight #pure vessel #thk #hk pv #:D