ADHD Creativity

Art and writing from a queer chaos brain (also vampires)

[smellslikebot]

free software alternatives

i never stop talking about some of these so i might as well banish them to a single post! you might know about a lot of them already, but feel free to look anyway

Adobe Animate (Flash) → OpenToonz, Synfig Studio, or Pencil2D 

Adobe Audition → Audacity

Adobe Illustrator → Inkscape 

Adobe Photoshop → GNU Image Manipulation Program or Paint.NET

Adobe Premiere Pro/After Effects → Fusion, Shotcut, OpenShot, Natron, or Blender

Autodesk Maya → Blender 

Clip Studio Paint/Paint Tool SAI → Krita, FireAlpaca, (both also include animation tools!) or MediBang Paint

FL Studio → LMMS

Microsoft Office → LibreOffice or Calligra Suite 

Scrivener → Celtx (sort of?) or Evernote

VLC media player → VLC media player lol

freeware can be a great opportunity to get a feel for something and learn a new skill. and in some cases, the free versions are almost as powerful, so you might find that you saved a lot of money but made work that was just about equal to what you might have done with paid software!

[licncourt]

I don't really have the desire to go in circles about the sexual nature of vampires in The Vampire Chronicles, but I do find that there are some interesting parallels between the claim that VC vampires are sexless beings because they don't have "human" sex and the way people talk about lesbian sex. I’m sure most lesbians (myself included) have encountered people who have the notion—conscious or not—that sex between women is not as complete or on the same level as sex where one partner is being penetrated by the other. I think the debate about whether VC vampires are "really having sex" stems from a similar place of being unable to accept a form of Real Sex that doesn't center procreation or even just the penis of a cisgender man and the act of PIV/PIA.

It is absolutely canon that VC vampires have sex. The blood drinking/sharing IS literally the sex and we are told that repeatedly. I don't find that there's anything to debate here. While I have mixed feelings about how Anne Rice implemented the lack of human sex between vampires, I also find it very compelling to see this non-traditional sexual dynamic represented and to have it portrayed as both equal and special in regards to human sex. Vampires experience lust and desire and sexual intimacy with each other, just in a way that's completely uncoupled from the act of procreation or the motions of it—one that exists purely for bonding and pleasure. When it's misused, it has the same emotional ramifications of any other sexual assault. It is not less real, only different and with different organs and types of touch.

I didn't start doing this intentionally (someone pointed it out later), but even when I've written fics where VC vampires are having human sex, I have them engaging in sex acts besides traditional intercourse more often than not. There's nothing at all wrong with PIA/PIV and I've definitely written that too, but I think there's a subconscious attraction to the fact that VC vampires are already removed from strict human sexual roles by nature. Writing them this way comes naturally not just because of my own sexual experience, but also because the idea of blood sharing as the ultimate culmination of sex for vampires removes the focus and urgency for an act of human penetration for the audience as well.

Vampires operate in a world that fundamentally prioritizes mutual sameness and pleasure for pleasure's sake, one that’s disconnected from human views on what sex is and should be. That’s very interesting and empowering for people who experience sex differently than the norm (I’ve heard similar sentiments about this from trans people with bottom dysphoria). I wish there wasn’t such a rush to discredit how vampires in Anne Rice’s world experience intimacy simply because it doesn’t align with the human “default”.

[7dmom]

What's interesting is I experience a more beautiful version of your pain

[expfcultragreen]

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[naturalist-journal]

[cxnt]

Saint Sebastian (about 1623),  Gerrit van Honthorst

[emobanana22]

Being not a teenager on this app feels exactly like this fr

[vostinare]

ase — by 47IMAGE

[polysucks]

you can jailbreak new kindles and kobos and boox now! turn off ads on ad-enabled devices! block ota updates so amazon can’t take it back from you!

I love these sites for getting any book you want! manage your library so you can access it anywhere from any device! borrow from your local and national libraries on your personal devices! even audiobooks! use this program to download audiobooks from browser sites or youtube in a variety of formats! Audacity has been free and user-friendly for 20+ years for audio exporting and editing!

keep reading! fascists hate it when you educate yourself!

[typhlonectes]

[aramblingjay]

The Lord of the Rings ↳ Aragorn and Legolas: battle besties

[niidsch]

Hello Kitty: Big City Dreams ♥ 2008

[niidsch]

Yoshi's Island DS (2006)

[fuzzbby]

Ann Carrington.

[fuckyeahstufficareabout-temp]

I love this 😭

[the-lions-hart]

Damn, they really got him.

[heartsl0b]

[lukeofe]

Some of you may not want to hear this, but sometimes autism accommodation means giving that socially awkward person who said something that came off as passive aggressive or uncomfortable the benefit of the doubt. Not everyone is capable of reading social rules and cues effectively, I thought this was autism 101.