#yes you may use these designs

[robinwaaaaa]

Some old F&C doodles and humanisations of mine that I legitimately almost forgot existed until now (awesome).

I'm such a huge fan of the pantheon in this show <3

#adventure time #adventure time fionna and cake #fionna and cake #i dont usually make fanart like ever but man this show did something to my brain #kheirosiphon #scarab #prismo #orbo #za baby #background characters #how do i even tag them #gravity god #light god #skull god #autism hand #i give up #yes you may use these designs

[antidotefortheawkward-art]

Sun Wukong's assorted lingpai (mandate tokens)

[ID: 1) An illustration of the two sides of a mostly rectangular lingpai made of wood. One side reads "令" and the other reads "弼马温", both written in seal script. The bottom of the lingpai is adorned by horses facing outwards, clouds by their feet.

2) An illustration of the two sides of a stone lingpai shaped mostly like a rectangle, but flared at the top and bottom. One side reads "令" and the other reads "美猴王", both written in seal script. The top of the lingpai is adorned with a dragon-pearl surrounded by flames and clouds. The bottom is adorned with mountains, the sea, and coral. The borders of both the top and bottom are decorated with clouds and flowers. The top is swirled in a way that resembles a lingzhi or a ruyi.

3) An illustration of the two sides of a red jade lingpai, shaped mostly like a rectangle but with a curved top. One side reads "令" and the other reads "齐天大圣", both written in seal script. The top of the lingpai is adorned by a ruyi with a flower and mountain at its center. Below the ruyi is a lotus flower, which sits on top of the forehead of a Yazi carving. Clouds extend out from either side of Yazi and below him are flowers. The two sides of the lingpai have the carvings of cloud pillars wrapped in a stylized waterfall. At the bottom are clouds which could also be the foam from the waterfall. Lotuses float atop this foam/these clouds. At the center of the bottom is a mountain with a ruyi at its foot. This ruyi also has a flower within it.

4) The lineart for the three lingpai, with accompanying commentary. The one labeled "BiMaWen" reads "carved and burned wood," "simple, only horses and clouds," and "ornamental, basically no power." The one labeled "Beautiful Monkey King" reads "carved from a chunk of Sun Wukong's stone egg," "customized from Ao family royal lingpai template," and "mostly sea, cloud, and dragon pearl imagery." The one labeled "Great Sage Equaling Heaven" reads "carved from red jade," "fully custom, in style of an emperor's lingpai but HuaGuo," and "flowers, waterfalls, mountains, ruyi, Yazi, and clouds imagery." At the side are simple doodles of the three lingpai. The first is light brown with a yellow cord, captioned "simple cord, no tassel." The second is grey with a red cord and tassel, captioned "silk cord and tassel." The third is red with a red cord and tassel, captioned "braided cord," "jade and gold accented." End ID]

#my art #journey to the west #jttw #xiyouji #visual development #prop design #in case youre wondering about the note on the Beautiful Monkey King lingpai- #yes he did harass Ao Guang for that #as soon as he came back from being BiMaWen he wanted a proper lingpai of his own #so he marched down to Ao Guang's palace with a stone in hand and demanded he get it properly carved #the Great Sage lingpai was carved by the artists of the Heavenly Palace and presented to him when his title was recognized #you may have seen a rough draft of that lingpai on swk's belt in the Seven Sages lineup 👉👈 #much simpler though of course gdhfsjkkdskl #at the time i was thinking of it as being carved from red wood #but nah now it's a solid chunk of jade you could knock someone out with it #also- 如意 means 'by one wants'- same as the ruyi in ruyijinkubang 'as-you-wish golden staff' #but ruyi here refers to the clustered swirls (google image it) bc its a common auspicious piece of imagery #Yazi is one of the famed Sons of the Dragon God #he's a violent and skilled fighter so he's usually used to adorn weaponry and armor #but i think swk would get a kick out of his lingpai having Yazi on it too

[b4kuch1n]

more sk8. I think the cindereki stuff is extremely stupid but I am not immune to trying to conceptualize a princess gown in any setting

#sk8 the infinity #kyan reki #hasegawa langa #renga #if ur wondering yes the first gown I uh. pulled? from the brothers grimm version's idea #which I do prefer to the perrault/disney version. specifically bc there's no fairy #there are three balls happening on three consecutive nights and each night cinderella gets a gown and accessories from a tree #growing on her mom's grave #(the version I grew up with (translated to vietnamese) actually wrote it to be her dad's grave instead I literally dont know why) #and the wording is like. ''rain gold and silver on me'' or something like that? which is why all of the dangly bits in that design #(dont worry about the rest of the brothers grimms version. thats not important. dont think about it its not in the room with us) #also in this post: future!renga bc of fucking course. who do you think I am. who do you think I am #I see a character I love I immediately try to imagine a good future for them it is Simply my ways #ft. the lethal combo of being three kinds of queer + adhd + a teen #may just be bc I myself don't go to college lol. but I can't really imagine reki going to college. he'd get apprenticeship somewhere #like immediately. on sight. some uncle in nago would snatch him up a sentence in #I waffle on langa but him just getting out of the biggest shock of his life + severe depression would Not let go of his loved ones #so tbh I can't imagine him leaving okinawa either. at least right after high school #langa has the advantage of not giving a single shit about ''his potentials'' so he'll be chasing life's pleasures for a hot second thank you #also I believe in reki speaking at least passable conversational english thank you. he's trans and gay in asia #he's just also the kind of guy who has to think for a hot second to remember which way the written number 3 faces #''nailed the logic just plugged the wrong number in several times'' kind of guy #while langa's the ''doesn't understand the fundamental concept of puzzles'' kind of guy #man. this is like having two homunculi implanted in my brain. welcome boys come join leon pokemon #talk to each others while I do my job ok? thank you #that said. the comm queue should be finished up soon #(funny thing to say about three comms I know. but I will say it anyway) #and I'll take a few days break to unclench my brain and then get back into it #every day I learn new things about the dip pen. its great #okay. nap now tho. anything else can wait

[eurekq]

no time for anything between work and bg3 but here are some work doodles of my dark urge epiphany :3

#you may remember her she used to be a wizard and her design was a little bit different #shes a wild magic sorc now #also yes. i know everyone alive did that eye thing. i thought it was cool and unique when i was making her #doodles

[aro-sora]

Heartless

This month's Carnival of Aros theme is "Humanity and the Non-Human" and these prompts were particularly resonant with me:

It’s been a fairly well-documented phenomenon that many aromantics tend to feel some sort of connection to some sort of fictional non-human species, whether as specific examples, or as a whole. If you relate, what are your thoughts on these characters and concepts as an aro(-spec)? Do you have any experiences in any subcultures related to non-humanity, such as Voidpunk?

So I thought I'd write something about my personal experiences.

It will come as no surprise to people who follow this blog that I am a heartless aromantic and I'm also a huge Kingdom Hearts fan. (To anyone who isn't familiar with KH, in the games there are beings of darkness called Heartless. There's a lot of designs and some are cooler than others so here are a few of my favorites:)

[ID: Various Heartless from Kingdom Heartles, in order, a Shadow, a Neoshadow, a Soldier, and a Darkling. End ID]

These beings are both literally and very much not literally (it's complicated) heartless. They are manifestations of the darkness in people's hearts and seek to steal more hearts to transform into Heartless.

(something something beings that are recognizably human but also . . . not and yet still have the instinctual desire to reclaim what was taken)

A common stereotype about aromantic people is that we are heartless and unfeeling because we don't experience romantic love. Aromanticism may influence a person's emotions and definitely impacts views on romance, but to say that all aros are cold and emotionless is hurtful and arophobic. But I also genuinely identify with the term "heartless." Not feeling romantic attractions makes me feel alienated from amatonormative society, and "heartless aro" is the best way for me to describe that feeling.

My love of Kingdom Hearts is also a huge influence on that. When I say KH rewired my brain, it's only a half joke. I was 5-6 years old when I first discovered these games and this bizarre Disney/Final Fantasy crossover was a very formative experience. "Heartless" is not just a way to describe my aromanticism, its a defining aspect.

What is it, to be Heartless? To be human, once, but now something . . . other: a being born of darkness. Darkness is a force that is often used for evil, but still KH makes a point of not making it inherently evil. Darkness exists in every heart. It can overwhelm, but it can also be accepted and mastered, like in Riku's case. To choose to become Heartless, in Sora's case, is a defining moment of humanity.

My blog url might be aro-sora (because let's be honest, he's super arospec) but the title, "My Heart Belongs to Me," is quote from Roxas, one of the best examples in KH of someone being denied humanity for supposedly not having a heart, yet being one of the most caring and emotional characters in the series. He's not an actual capital-H Heartless (that's Sora, briefly) but his story and his struggles just . . . resonate with me. "I am me! Nobody else!" I want for people to stop thinking of me as something I am not, as desiring relationships I don't want, or even being a gender I am not.

I don't have much experience with voidpunk culture (but now I want to look into it), but recently I discovered the term otherhearted: "Identifying strongly with something nonhuman and/or fictional, without literally identifying as that thing." (I'm a bit on the fence between being otherhearted and otherkin, but otherheart literally has the word "heart" in it and the KH influence is strong.) It's a very queer experience to want to change your identity and be something other than what people see you as. Sometimes I imagine that for myself—claws of darkness, eyes of burning gold. Darkness cannot exist without light, but neither can light exist without darkness. Nothing can destroy me, because I am the shadow at the very heart of the world.

I guess that would make me Heartless-hearted. An ironic term, I know, but similarly to my personal heartless aro identity I find it absolutely hilarious. So many parts of my identity are "contradictions": being bigender, being human and heartless. It fits with the lore of the Heartless themselves: some technically do possess hearts and some don't. (it's complicated)

I call myself heartless the same way I call myself queer. Bigots will use them as insults and an attempt to make me lesser and other and nonhuman, but to me these are my words. They are mine and I give them power, no one else. Someone thinks I'm "heartless" for not experiencing a certain feeling? Fuck them, I AM heartless. And I am still human because I choose to be, not because humanity is something to be given or taken away. I don't have to prove anything about myself to anyone. I define my own heart, NO ONE ELSE.

And if they still think that being heartless—being aromantic—is something "wrong" or "unnatural" or not human? I only have a warning for them:

Beware the darkness in your heart. The Heartless prey upon it.

#kh #carnival of aros #a carnival of aros #aromantic #aro #heartless #heartless aro #otherhearted #my ideal gender presentation is either a mix of masculine and feminine or literally just a neoshadow. or a darkling #semi-related note: the terms “Heartless” and “Nobody” make sense for their respective beings and I will fight anyone who says otherwise #i was very tempted to include images of the wackier heartless designs but it would have taken away from the point #non kh fans reading this i highly recommend browsing the kh wiki and seeing all the designs. some are . . . interesting #like scar. yes. scar the lion from the lion king #you may have heard of him #i also use loveless and lovequeer but mostly heartless because. as i said. the kh influence is very strong #it's about beings that USED TO BE human but AREN'T ANYMORE yet still have that instinctive desire to restore their missing heart #*gestures wildly to the air* DO YOU SEE MY POINT #ITS ABOUT A SCARED CONFUSED BOY HAVING EVERYTHING TAKEN AWAY AND HUMANITY DENIED FROM HIM YET STILL SO PAINFULLY HUMAN #i'm going to go cry about roxas now #happy spooky month everybody!

[kakusu-shipping]

Two Urchins and a Jellyfish; Childhood friends to lovers and also I'm there. Platonically.

Felt like doodling @cakeships tonight for funsies. Having a good time.

#Emile's Arts #Other's Self Ships #I was so excited to find someone who self ships with Spyke my best friend Spyke my childhood friend Spyke #But then he is ALSO childhood best friends with Spyke???? Oooooh #The trio ever is born. #Yes I drew them in a silly anime pose I was having FUN #Never drawn a character with one eye before #It's surprisingly both easy and incredibly expressive #I shall return to do so again #I'm getting more and more cartoonish with how I draw Spyke every single time #Bubble those spines for funsies #And ease of drawing kfdjgkfd #Anyway this is your monthly reminder to TELL ME #IF WE HAVE F/OS IN SHARED MEDIA #BECAUSE I WILL DRAW US HANGING OUT #And if I like your design enough I may just draw you and your F/O who's to say fdkjgkfdgd #Anyway thanks to Cake for letting me draw them this was SUPER fun!! #Having a grand old time!

[bernscat]

MIYAO has the most beautiful design ever, my sketchbook is so full of drawings. This is my newest muse.

#now MIYAO doesn't care what others may think of it but it must be acknowledged #yes the design is a breastplate and gold underwear #but you get a flowing red cape #and when we get the full body sprite i believe MIYAO has knee high boots? #but what i am really obsessed with. is what we are allowed to see #my favorite thing in art is the anatomy #the flesh the fat the muscle #i used to be more obsessed with faces and while i still am #i really am more focused on bodies #and MIYAOs design really delivers for me

[age-of-moonknight]

Timeless (Vol. 3/2023), #1.

Writers: Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly; Penciler and Inker: Juann Cabal; Colorist: Edgar Delgado; Letterer: Travis Lantham

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Timeless vol. 3 #Timeless 2023 #Timeless #Moon Knight comics #latest release #Power Man #Luke Cage #Khonshu #and this is not a compliment for that blasted overblown seagull but rather Mr. Cabal’s work because despite my dislike of the character #I /do/ really like this «Celestial Khonshu» design as he gets all fancy and tries to recruit his own Silver Surfer #to completely swerve to a more philosophical note #and one that may make more sense when you see exactly what happens to the trash bird (turn back now if uninterested #in discussions of portrayals of G-d in contemporary media…and yes even I’m wondering why I’m doing this #in the tags of a comic book panel post so in general just don’t mind me hahaha): #I get why some people are rankled when characters use language asserting themselves to be G-d #particularly when the authorial intent is clearly to comment on the nature of a singular all-powerful all-loving Ruler and Judge of creatio #and it’s…not always benevolent but perhaps even mocking (it never feels good when people don’t want to discuss/question/ #interact in good faith with something that people have devoted their entire lives to but instead just want to jeer. #To reiterate everyone’s definitely entitled to any qualms they might have about belief systems and religious institutions #and how those entities have traditionally treated groups of peoples for example #but a willingness to discuss those legitimate concerns and how to move beyond them just might be more constructive than #making strawmen to mock entire demographics and what’s important to them) #ANYWAY all this to say there are times however where I’ve seen monotheists not even be bothered by attempts at mockery #because those attempts can be flipped around into comments of «gee yeah we sure are lucky that G-d doesn’t have those #human flaws you gave Him in your strawman representation!» #like….Khonshu the absolutely craven despicable manipulative power-grabber committing a little blasphemy here just makes it all the more #satisfying when a singular man blasts a hole through that bird’s bony chest #if you’re anything less than the humanly unobtainable ideal of absolute perfection and declare yourself above all…you’re going down HARD

[frostbite-the-bat]

remembering old fandoms and rps and aus i had and im realizing this isnt the first time an au version of frostbite interacted a lot with someone who at least in text had a quirk that does something to the letter s which is ironic considering their name

#...........im talking about hr again sorry my condition gets worse each day especially when im more open about it #the previous/other one was a few years back. #it was . my gorillaz days...! and my gangreen gang specific hyperfix...! (never actually watched ppg) #they were besties with snake and there was a joke they adopted him and that he was their “sssson” even if they were only like a year older #our au ggg was very different bc it was like 4-3 ppl rping our own shit but it was very found family and backstories were Angsty #and obviously snake hisssssesss hisss letter sss #then hr haff hiff liffp #fun fact i used to have a pretty nasty lisp when i was younger before i got my teeth fixed up a bit so i honestly unironically love #characters with any kind of lisp even if its the daffy duck kind (who may be a bit hard for me to understand when voice acted like that but #i still Enjoy) #(i need subtitles for literally anything anyway) #anyways ggg au frostbite is also the edgiest of all the au frostbites that exist #least developed/just cool design is glamrock frost #most developed as a character and MOST goofy is toontown frost #anyways back on the lisp whoever put the letter s into the word lisp genuinely needs to die. and the word stop. yes i got bullied about #my lisp why do you ask #ok since im rambling heres a bigger ramble #both gorillaz and hr make me feel better abt my teeth #all the band members in gorillaz have mad fucked up teeth and i didnt have access to a good dentist until like 2020. i was endlessly #bullied for my teeth and i had difficulities eating some things and other health issues because i had horrid teeth bc of genes + my parents #didnt teach me to clean my teeth properly like wow you gotta go BETWEEN the teeth. the white stuff that covers your teeth ISNT GOOD ACTUALL #and hr has a mad overbite and i have that too so that makes me feel better..ive been rlly subconscious abt that lately actually #still wondering why nobody bothered gettin that fixed but i guess everything else was a bigger issue #and the fact i was missing my front teeth #yeah my health back then wasnt the best ! and i was bullied abt it even by my own best friends parents! no good! but seeing silly band #members who r fictional who i was hyperfixated on helped me feel better #man wish i could hide stuff from appearing in tag searches bc i just like rambling in the tags #but then i say one word and it appears in the tags and im super subconsious about it now bc i made one ramble and boom why is it in the #hr tag :sob: :skull: #OH WELL.

[poisonhemloc]

brain has been garbage recently but is firmly back in outer wilds so have some headcanons thatre mostly temperature/clothing/ships for the travelers

Feldspar’s clothing (under their suit) is like. 80% patches. They crash a lot and the only reason their spacesuit isn’t full of patches is they got a new one right before Dark Bramble. Their normal existence is patches and bandages and taping whatever broke off their ship back on. The one scar that almost got their upper right eye is still clear- but they’ve got a number of other scars from the many, many crashes, and a couple from getting a little too close to ghost matter. I’d say “so they were more careful” but considering their camp on Giant’s Deep, that would be a lie. Also. They cannot tolerate heat. They barely messed around with the twins because it’s too hot for them- they’re never right up next to a campfire cause they’re always hot. Their ship is always a little cold (because there’s no insulation in it) and that how they prefer it. Their ship was made before Slate really figured out how to make retrorockets work and so doesn’t have any, which did contribute (a little) to Feldspar’s fly as fast as you can approach to things and crash count. Their (current) ship was built to test the rocket propulsion.

Chert on the other hand can’t do cold and loves Ember Twin for the first fifteen minutes of the loop they’re always up next to a campfire or wearing a bunch of layers. They’re responsible for a lot of the constellations the Hearthians have that aren’t the ones visible from their crater, but the familiar ones are their favorites and what’s on their bandana. While everyone thinks Feldspar is the best at flying, they’re wrong- It’s Chert, assuming your metric for “best at flying” is “doesn’t break things on the ship” (If your metric is “best at getting the ship places” then it’s Feldspar, Chert has a very clear view of their and the ship’s limits and wouldn’t try, say, flying the ship into a cyclone.) After Chert launched they’ve almost never had to have repairs done for something they did. Part of that is cause they have three cockpits on the ship- if they need a better view of something, they move to a different cockpit. Their ship does have a lot of insulation type stuff in it because they asked Slate politely and ignored the resulting argument between Slate and Gossan (”If I still have the restraints on the chair it’ll throw off the weight calculations!” “If you don’t I’m throwing your weight into a geyser”) Their ship was built to test the landing cams and the first generation of autopilot unit (which they don’t use at all because it’s awful.) They do have a retrorocket- after Slate figured it out with Gabbro’s ship, they tried to minimize it, and it didn’t work fantastically, which is why our and Riebeck’s ships have two thruster things.

Gabbro’s the only traveler who’s suit is actually waterproof- mostly because they asked. Clothing underneath tends to be in a state of “you need to go patch that already before it falls off” because they tend to forget about that kinda thing. Hot or cold they’re whatever, but a big part of why they’re on Giant’s Deep is they love rain and watching it, which is worth the cyclones to them. Their ship’s pretty hardy but wood rots eventually and metal rusts- they know how to keep it, if not pretty, running enough to get to the Attlerock for repairs as needed. Their ship was built to finally figure out the retrorocket issue. They do have a landing cam but it’s not good enough they actually use it. They do not have an autopilot unit- theirs is the only ship that’s still working that doesn’t (though the hatchling’s ship is the only one with an autopilot unit that’s used).

Riebeck has a very narrow range of temperatures they’re happy in but mostly ignores it, since they’re on Brittle Hollow which alternates between just slightly too cold to too hot for them. They wear suspenders biggest red suspenders i ever did see under their suit. Their ship has the cockpit on top, so they can sit and have a 360 degree view around them and not look down, which is important. It’s less real if you’re seeing it approach through the landing cam, you see. They’re the worst flier out of the travelers, even accounting for the hatchling- they’re not out here to fly they’re here to study and they’re gonna be nervous every time they have to get in that ship. Slate also didn’t argue too much about the safety stuff in the ship since. It’s Riebeck. So a lot of their ship was testing safety stuff and also gen 2 of the autopilot unit (which they don’t really use cause. It’s still not really working.)

Esker does have a space suit, it’s in their house. Sometimes you gotta walk over to wherever someone managed to land a broken heap on the Attlerock. The ship on the Attlerock is an older crash- Gossan was flying it. Esker doesn’t have a ship up there. When they were flying they and Gossan would use the same ship on and off, but they preferred fixing to flying and took over as ship repairs on the Attlerock so they wouldn’t have to keep flying Slate up pretty quickly. If they want to get down to Timber Hearth now, they’re usually radio’ing Chert or Gossan and waiting for their ride to show up.

#Poisonhemloc’s rambles #outer wilds #i have been in the brainfog from headache state for two days and this may be incoherent but posting anyway #for the record (counting esker) my timeline of who launched when is feldspar esker gabbro chert riebeck hatchling #we know slate used our ship to test a new cockpit design and the next ship is gonna be figuring out the autopilot fully so. #went through the big things i think they tested on each ship #also also if youre reading all through the notes heres a concept for you- im betting if the plot of the game hadnt happened. Tephra was next #also yes Riebeck's suspenders are a steam powered giraffe joke im not sorry

[littlefankingdom]

Me: I cannot understand how people can be attracted to cookies. I just can't.

Royale Margarine Cookie: *exists*

Me: I will shut up from now on.

#cookie run kingdom #listen I may be asexual but I'm not blind the cookie is hot #the card game against him? I'm struggling #And he has a fucking wyvern #what more do you need #yes I'm back to playing cookie run kingdom #the chara design is so good and I cannot resist food #also the wyvern which is not a real dragon having the audacity to make a comment on him not being real butter is sending me #he's not real butter bitch I'm french I use margarine as much as butter which is a lot

[sisterdivinium]

Think "necessity" of evil in the ultimate doing of good ("For God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist"); sin/failure for the sake of elevation, personal and otherwise, and how each of the characters "falls" so that good may come of it somehow, be it in general knowledge, assistance in pursuing good or personal enlightenment.

I'm far too lacking in dogmatic understanding to pursue this specific angle of investigation the way I'd like to and it's driving me crazy.

#vincent the traitor who releases adriel and later repents yes - but this ultimately brings us to reya #who would've stayed in shadow otherwise and hidden the danger she represents. oh the blood that was shed #but the progression of history has required it always and a few cardinals slain in a hotel are a small price to pay #suzanne the prideful who must be bent into accepting and trusting the women around her eventually #who followed by shannon the wronged (innocent?) precipitates the rise of ava #ava whom suzanne also aids and could not have done so had she not fallen #beatrice the forsaken who carves a path towards herself by using her pain #and without whom the designated saviour would never be able to save anyone of course #mary the abandoned who pays for the sins of her mother and thus buys herself the family she needs #jillian the relentless whose curiosity is fed in morsels at the exchange of human life #but who does gain glimpses at Something and who does become more human herself through loss #lilith the heir whose arrogance costs her more than one family but who might well lead the way to new life #michael the lamb who dies so ava may find her own way towards achieving her goal #i know this isn't exactly dogmatic but still; i'm caught up with nathaniel hawthorne see #read the marble faun and you will understand where this is coming from #i remember being struck by how in starz' spartacus every single character action brought on new disaster #but here in warrior nun - as much as disaster is part of it - there seems to be a light at the end of each tunnel in a way #complications arise one after the other but there are gains along the way #i shall ponder a good while more #if for no other reason than babbling in the tags like this is unacceptable #i was raised a civilised woman and i will write cohesive ordered texts like one! (eventually!) #analysis and similar #exercises in observation

[koipalm]

i know i should not go to jjk for revolutionary feminism of all things but i think its disappointing that the weapon mai gives maki is an exact replica of the one toji used

#WASTE of weapon design #because you didnt even use a new design. you didnt even try #SHE COULD HAVE BEEN UNIQUE LET HER MEMORY MAKE A LEGACY YOU BASTARD #jujutsu kaisen spoilers #mai zenin #like i know all the parallels yes theyre interesting yes theyre impressive #but goddamn. goddamn #WHATEVER. ill just have to redesign it #GEGE LOVES EXPLAINING COMPLICATED THINGS LET MAKI HAVE A COOL UNIQUE WEAPON TO EXPLAIN #txt #edit NOT only that.... but both maki AND mai get toji hairstyles... GGGYAAAAAHHHHHH ARRGHHHHHH

[the-penultimate-pam]

I'm on Pillowfort!

Yeah, just in case The Brands™ destroy what makes Tumblr good, I’ve made an account on Pillowfort. For the moment, it’s under the username that I’m allowing both Online and IRL people to know (including... coworkers lollll), so I probably won’t be as wild on there, but whatever!

They just made it free to join, with a waitlist - go to https://www.pillowfort.social/waitlist and sign up, the wait time is only 5 hours at the time I’m writing this, OR you can pay $5 USD to get immediate access (just go through the homepage to join that way).

Once you get the email saying your registration has arrived, you just create a username and password, and then you’ll need to go back to your email inbox and confirm your email address to get full access to the site’s features.

Then follow meeeeee <3 https://www.pillowfort.social/TwasBrillig Click the little plus in a circle on the left. (Followers and mutuals, if your Pillowfort name isn’t similar to your tumblr name, please let me know who you are! I probably won’t block unknowns but would like to know :) )

I’m definitely sticking around on Tumblr as long as I can, though!

(Protip: Go to settings and turn on dark mode)

#and yes it does have a tagging system almost identical to tumblr's so yes i will be making full use of it #still figuring out how it all works #i do admit the UI and navigation are a little less intuitive than what I'm used to #but I like the philosophy behind its purpose #pam spam #so far it does seem very VERY similar to tumblr #I just don't think you can make custom pages on your profile #or even customize its design and layout #but that may be in the plans for future #also i'm trying purple text here and there - please let me know if this makes it difficult or inaccessible for you #purple because purple is good

[vexx-the-egg]

I understand that a lot of people are uncomfortable with vtubers appearing young and childish both in design and In speach because of course they should. Anyone who's doing it for perverse reasons is unequivocally gross for sexualizing minors. But as an adult who's very small and and really does have that body type and that kind of voice... its a bit... I dont know disheartening? To hear people talk about being "minor" coded in real life is a bit crazy to me.

I can't change my voice or the way I look. And as someone who gets misgendered for it, on top of people in real life giving me comments like "oh that's not your real voice right?". "Oh your just not mature enough for this job." In jobs I'm already doing.

It just feels wierd I guess. There are a great deal of people out there hiding behind infantasing (racist) depictions of Asian women in the vtubing community. Unfortunately that is a fact and they should be called out for it. But let's not assume that it's impossible for an adult to be soft spoken and ... short? You know. And let's not assume that's the Vtubing community as a whole. There are thousands of diffrent vtubers out there, each with their own sense of expression and creativity. We shouldn't be blaming the mass for the actions of few.

#even though my vtubing has been put on a solid hold this was something i struggled with #because people just automatically assumed i was young and i had to clarify no im not putting on an act and yes i am an adult #which i guess im already used to in real life but its much more uncomfortable online when people dont have the same boundaries #ive also met a lot of really wondeful vtubers along the years who are very solid in both genuine talent #and it feels bad to see post saying alll vtubers are creepy and fetishy when ive personally watched and spoken to a buch of people who #are nothing like that #like good honest people who sure open with there sexuality and like to joke around #but arent fishing by any means #there are also a lot of corporate vtubers who just... straight up dont get to choose their model #ive seen post saying that nijisanji girls are creepy because they have young looking modles but they act like grown women #but ?? anyone whos tried out for nijisanji would know that your model is basicly picked befor you even join try out. #even hololive girls dont get to pick design choices #independent is a whole nother thing but not every independent is the same #and you cant just group them all together like that #may delete later #sorry for the complaing its just something thats been on my mind #this was mostly a tiktok thing from people outside of the community #but i dont know I wanted to talk about it i guess

[gadgetthewolf]

Everyday. I wake up and pretend to be a Jerboa-Wolf Weasel on VRChat.

#mine #vrchat #fang the sniper #nack the weasel #sonic the hedgehog #ok some infos in the tags. #This is a custom edit of the Bubblegum Bark base #I used free assets for the hat #the scarf is an Awboi scarf repurposed #I used artistic liberty on his design because I can’t give him his boots #nor can I give him his gloves #the belt MAY come someday. i just need to find a way to have a belt like Fang’s. #visible on PC and Quest #PC has the scarf and the line on the hat have a glittery material because hes a material girl #Quest just uses Toon Lit #ears and tails are floppy and grabbable. tail had an automatic wag animation. #Yes Fang is friendly yes you can meet him on VRChat if you find me in a public world #Yes Fang is going to Furality Aqua #No I don’t actually play everyday