a post-doc was doing a guest seminar at my institute and at the beginning of his presentation he was explaining why he chose birds for his evolutionary analysis - so he said "well first of all, because birds are the best and most interesting animals and it's fun to study them" and a few professors in the room gave him a very serious nod
These are the actual colours I painted with, but I played around a bit with gradient maps to get a few variations... I like them all, and cannot really decide which I prefer.
Ref is from this.
Not at all SAMS or SB related, but i've had this drawing idea in mind for about 2 days, and finally sat down and did it.
Yes, i play Creatures of Sonaria. This creature is my main creature. Even if i don't use her very often cuz of how unforgiving Sonaria players are, and how limited i currently am. Plus she is a glimmer. She was my first and only glimmer aolenus. I've kept her alive for almost 3 years now. Not straight.. she has died a few times, but i have revive tokens so she is fine.
Anyways.. Glimmer Aolenus watching a Warden's Nebula because that is my favorite weather pattern in the game. It's just so pretty.
Okay, i finally got around to these refs for the RE AU Eclipses!
In order: RE Eclipse (damaged), RE Eclipse (fixed), Backup, Nova, Dusk
I also drew their whole base since i needed to do two sets of clothing. Base underneath. It has nothing bad on it. I also did it to practice. This is only the second time i've ever drawn their base-
Is anyone gonna explain to people that ‘proship’ does not actually mean ‘problematic shipping’ or ‘problematic ship’ or are we just going to let this misinformation spread some more?
It means pro-shipping. The prefix pro, meaning ‘supporting.’ In favor of shipping.
It only became a defined position after anti-shippers who initially identified themselves as anti-a specific ship started harassing creators they didn’t like, doxxing them, and trying to get them fired from their irl jobs for shipping reasons around 2014-2016.
So people who had been in fandom for long enough to know where that kind of rhetoric leads (ffnet purges, LJ strikethru, as well as the direct harms caused by doxxing) observed this increasing trend of harassment and rallied to say ‘oh you lot are anti-shipping, as in opposed to certain ships? Well in that case, we are pro-shipping, because we follow the adage of ship and let ship.’
Before that point, it was just basic fandom etiquette to not bother people who ship stuff you don’t like, and to understand that if something squicks you out, it’s not the fault of the people who made it.
If someone says they are pro-ship, it means fuck all about what they actually enjoy in fiction.
It just means they’re opposed to harassing creators for making content that doesn’t cause tangible harm to real people. A better way to understand the ideological position is being anti-harassment and anti-censorship.
I have a lot of ships I find disgusting blacklisted so I don’t have to see them. But I am not interested in forcing people to comply with what I think is gross. That’s what it means.
Curate your online experience, and understand that your disgust response is not a defensible moral indicator or a justification to harass, deplatform, and dox fan writers.