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why do grooms get one boring black jacket and brides get the most jawdropping gowns ever like when i get married i want pearls and lace and a train is that too much to ask??

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Feeding cats by remote control 😹😹😹❤️

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do you ever just see that somebody reblogged something from you, so you go their count for some mild stalkage and then reblog a bunch of shit from them in a row, and then get really nervous because you're afraid that they'll think you're creepy when they notice you've done some mild stalkage and reblogged a bunch of shit from them in a row?

nope, me neither

#If you're the person I just did this to #no you're not #artemus rambles

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Since I made the sheets for Adrien, I knew I needed to make one for Mari, too. Especially since, before this, I hadn't actually ironed out her outfit for part one.

Mari has been giving me inexplicable difficulty with this AU. I'm struggling with how to dress her in a way that looks more "mature"---you know, like a 20-year-old, and not a 14-year-old. Which is really hard, because most of the outfit designs that I love for her are super cute and girly, but in a way that doesn't really fit this version of her.

Also, I'm just now realizing that I basically gave her Barbie's arrival-in-Paris outfit from Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale, which is so fucking funny, gods damn it---

#artemus does art #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug au #miraculous ladybug #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir #apatura au

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Adrien's character sheet for my Apatura AU!

"But why two versions, Artemus?" you ask.

Well, I'll be perfectly honest. Older!Adrien having black hair was my initial thought for the character, for reasons that will make sense in the story itself.

But I was afraid that people would be upset or confused by him having dark hair. So I made the two versions and asked for feedback from my most trusted advisor. Ultimately, I was reassured in my decision for him to have dark hair.

Unfortunately, since the reasons why he has dark hair are spoilers, I won't be sharing them here! (Muahahaha. Sorry.)

#also long-haired adrien is superior and you cannot convince me otherwise #adrien agreste #miraculous ladybug au #miraculous ladybug #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir #apatura au #artemus does art

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no writing workshop can help you improve your writing as much as this screenshot can

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looking at that one booktok post and didn’t realize how funny this is. uou do not know what a safe word is

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

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All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.

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*doesn't post about/draw a character for 50 years* i am basically the CEO of beinf a fan of this character

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It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

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when ur listening to a random playlist and all of a sudden start assigning songs to ur ocs

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I like the idea of Kieran and Elissabat having been close with Draculaura at the same time