Just calling me Kipali is fine.I recently got a ko-fi, at this link if ou want to support me! kofiwidget2.init('Support Me on Ko-fi', '#6e6e6e', 'E1E221I4O');kofiwidget2.draw();
My oc whomst time regresses back into her childhoood and changes many things for the better, right?
Inspired by the otome isekai trope of, "orphan gets adopted by a noble family and yes they sure look like their adoptive parents don't they?" and like it turns out the noble family had a stolen/missing/dead child who would be jsut the mc's age and surely they're not the same person right like what are the chances? (she always is their real daughter)
Hello!
I know I usually just use this blog for bird pictures etc. but I'm scurrying around and messaging people about this website, so I figured I should make a pinned post so it's a bit less weird for them if they meander on over to my blog.
I'm trying to get the word out about WebcomicWeb!
It's a website I made where webcomic makers submit their comics through a google form. Users then use a button to preview and/or visit a random webcomic from the selection. There's filters for ratings and current running statuses.
All sized archives and skill levels are welcome!! Completed, discontinued, hiatus, etc - please submit them! Someone out there will be so happy to read what you've put out into the world!
I know first hand that getting the word out about independent webcomics is really difficult and, honestly, sometimes disheartening! I'd love to get this website up and really going for both makers and readers alike.
I appreciate anyone spreading the word. Thank you!
Here's another link! WebcomicWeb.com!
also here's the webcomic I help write -
https://kingsgatecomic.com/
Dreams gave me an oc situation:
The classic "People get stuck in a VRMMORPG" and a main character that had DID, and the stresss of that situation sure did NOT help.
Fun situation of everyone worrying that "what if we die in game we die irl?!?!" because of media consumption where that is real. That did not happen, but Alabaster and Percy's mmemory gaps due to other alters fronting and just general dissassociation sure made people think "oh no dying in the game will make you lose memories!!!" (also not real)
after 4 years of drawing webcomics, this is my wisdom:
start now. now. now now now. or else you'll never draw this damn thing
it's fine if you don't have the entire story figured out yet, it'll happen naturally
draw what you want to draw!! webcomics often run for years, so you better work with something you like
don't overcomplicate things. a simple, efficient work flow is your top priority in order to stay consistent
bullshit some things. trace background refs. reuse poses. draw your character's face from different angles and just copy paste it in to save time. be smart about your work baby
take breaks if needed. webcomic burnout is real
sometimes, a panel or a page looks bad. shit happens. move on
lettering is actually really important and super hard to pull off
it's your comic. do what you want forever!!!
I'm begging you again to work smart, not hard. reuse backgrounds. use brush sets for webcomic artists. trace 3D objects. use 3D models to pose your characters
you may need hours or days to draw one panel, but people will look at it for 5-8 seconds. keep that in mind
a simple background is better than no background at all (avoiding the white void increases the quality of your work by a ton!)
sometimes the anatomy needs to be a little off to make an interesting shot/panel. that's fine, don't worry about it too much
at least 2000px canvas and 300 dpi for good quality results
it's okay to stop by the way. it's okay to move on from a project if you no longer find joy in it
Did You Know? you can read Gather Ye Power for free on webtoon for a fun and wonderous time full of POWERS and CUBE and LOBSTER and BEAUTIFUL BREATHTAKING LINEWORK
Because SOMEHOW people need to be reminded of things from literally ten years ago:
"Free the nipple" never meant "free to not wear a bra" or "free to breastfeed." Those were adjacent conversations that of course "free the nipple" supporters would boost, but that was NEVER the core of free the nipple.
The core of free the nipple was always that the breasts of people perceived as women ("female-presenting nipples" to use some Tumblr speak) are in no way different than the breasts of people perceived as men. And that since the chests of people perceived as men are not sexualized and are allowed to be exposed, so too should the breasts of people perceived as women. If men can be topless, so can women. If it's inappropriate for women to show their chests, neither should men. It isn't sexual assault for a woman to walk around barechested, because it isn't sexual assault for a man to do so either, and breasts are NOT sexual organs.
Claiming breasts are inherently sexual organs is factually and morally wrong, it is sexist and controlling, it is a tool of oppression, and it defines normal body parts (and bodily functions) as sex which leads to inherent sexualization of people with those parts. It leads to 12 year olds with large breasts being accused of seducing 40 year old men or trying to distract and corrupt their classmates.
"Free the nipple" doesn't mean "free the nipple in a god-fearing way." It means FREE THE NIPPLE, full stop, end of sentence. It means to free the nipple of the faulty social constructs that cast it as a sexualized, malicious force of seduction instead of a normal body part that should be free of expectations of shame or "modesty."
Breasts and nipples aren't shameful, sexual, immoral, porn-adjacent, kinks, a distraction, or things to be feared. They are a part of your body just like your elbows and ankles, and being afraid of them, thinking they will corrupt some innocent person or that being exposed to them is trauma akin to sexual assault, is the entire fucking problem.
Free the nipple, not just for breastfeeding, not just from bras, but from the fucked up social constructs that cast them as malicious instead of innocent. Stop trying to sanitize "free the nipple" for puritanical, conservative audiences who already hate you and the rest of us. You aren't helping anyone.
MothOnTheWall 3353/07/21 05:12
Speaking of student council, I was wondering what that was like and I found this quiz quizzilla.net/student-council-quiz
MothOnTheWall 3353/07/21 05:12
I got patron of the arts,
GG 3353/07/21 05:15
oh that's funny
GG 3353/07/21 05:15
assistant got a kick out of it too. he was the chief magister at one point hahaha
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 05:15
Yeah, this is probably a position I hate much less.
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:01
So uh, school politics just got nuts. The Patron of the Arts came over to chat with my little group.
GG 3353/07/21 06:01
what happened?
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:02
She came over and told us she was interested in trying to remove the superstitious fear of the Old World. Implied we might know something interesting. Said that if certain council members are too cowardly and uninterested in art, we might provide a unique perspective. We unanimously agreed on fuck no, because this is either a very obvious trap or something they actually want but which puts all the danger on us. So now we're trying to figure out how to deal with the consequences of telling the Patron no.
GG 3353/07/21 06:02
what are the consequences of telling the patron no?
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:03
Well, that's the question we have to answer. This might have been a long shot and she won't have time to try to punish us for it. Or we might face some attacks, attempts to sabotage our work, or a duel challenge. I'm going to look into designing some weapons so I can suggest "duel with a weapon of your own design" as a possible strategy, since I doubt she has any she's made herself. Not that I like duels, but that's how it is sometimes.
GG 3353/07/21 06:03
assistant says invoke the honor code if they try to attack you outside of duels lol he's reading over my shoulder. says it's nostalgic apparently hahaha
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:03
Honestly, you're not wrong there, but at least at my school people will overlook that when the student council's up to something.
GG 3353/07/21 06:03
your operation you mean? if the council doesn't have any proof i doubt they can incriminate you for it
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:03
They'll overlook the council violating the honor code and similar, is what I mean there.
GG 3353/07/21 06:04
oh. i guess that's true… or apparently you can press it to either the. .. spirit speaker or magister? lol sorry these titles are crazy
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:04
Ooh that's tricky. Spirit speaker uh. Really, really doesn't like us. They're the Imperial religious voice basically, so they really don't like me and my friends in particular. Magister might be a better bet, depending.
GG 3353/07/21 06:05
Sup, assistant here. Taking over for a sec cuz I'm tired of telling GG what to say lol. Does Spirit Speaker's dislike for you outweigh their moral duty to the religion? If yes then you are fucked on that front and should appeal to the Magister for correct protocol proceedings.
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:05
They generally see us as immoral and weak, so us suffering for our choices seems to outstrip dueling and violence codes. So yeah, we'd have to go to the Magister. The risk there is any attackers just deciding to get more sneaky and deniable.
GG 3353/07/21 06:06
You seem smart enough to keep a camera on you to prove the attackers' involvement if it comes to that ;) Good luck kid! I understand you're not really into this whole school politics thing lol Which fair tbh but I was magister myself and I was having the time of my life
GG 3353/07/21 06:06
so much so you went into law as your actual work >3>
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:06
I appreciate the help. I usually just try to present an uninteresting target, but it's good to think in different terms and have some outside perspective, since I'll need it for this.
GG 3353/07/21 06:06
you're not uninteresting just by virtue of doing old world digging i think
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:06
Fair! That's just what I want the student council to think- or as much as I can. I'd like them to think old world digging is boring.
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:07
The quiz was quite interesting in giving me more songs to look at!
GG 3353/07/21 06:07
i queued them up for myself. good stuff! whoever made the quiz has good taste hehe
GG 3353/07/21 06:07
but also i think you misunderstand how old world digging is "interesting". not "interesting" as in cool or fun, but as in that it's threat to morale. you know?
GG 3353/07/21 06:07
i may not get your crazy student council shenanigans but you learn a thing or two about what people are scared of when you work in security hihi
MaidofOrleans 3353/07/21 06:07
That's definitely a good point yeah. It's just one of those things where if you weren't super careful when you were younger, you're stuck with a reputation for a good long time.
GG 3353/07/21 06:07
i may not get your crazy student council shenanigans but you learn a thing or two about what people are scared of when you work in security hihi
Ordinarily I would not even approach the Big M/M Media Thing Of The Month Discourse with a ten-foot pole and would be content to watch from the sidelines and obviously I think people should read or watch whatever they want and have a great time but I saw this and I just think "I don't want to read or watch women suffer so we can try simply not watching women at all" is insane
Man. What kind of MLM is she reading that she can escape misogyny. Ones with 0 women in them???
Because like. I in my late teens stopped reading mlm romances type stories because it was fucking rare for the lady side characters to like. Not get just like the most Viscious treatment possible from the author. For being women. Especially if it was a woman interested in one of the main guys. Certain types of mlm romances (im looking at you japanese yaoi) are more prone to it than others but also like. If the genre you're reading has a tendency to treat it's female side characters badly (which, most ya fic does, which, most romances do), it won't matter if the two main characters are men, the side women will still be treated badly.
Probably because those authors had some internalised misogyny they needed to deal with.
Hello, aspec tumblr. Hello people who love to read. I’m here to dangle a shiny new fantasy novel before you. It has:
✅ narrator is probably demisexual, but hasn’t thought about it
✅ romance-repulsed aroallo deuteragonist
✅ a time mage who solves problems with knives
✅ an angel with suspiciously infernal abilities
✅ dragonfolk
✅ unintentional allegory for having grown up queer in a conservative household
Read "Balances" by Bethany Laurel available from Rakuten Kobo. When renegade Demonslayer Akieryon crashes to earth in front of a human, he d
Balances
When renegade Demonslayer Akieryon crashes to earth in front of a human, he doesn’t know what to expect. Getting taken home into the heart of not-a-sorcerer Tempest’s life only boggles his preconceptions more. For the first time in his long life, Akieryon has the freedom to do whatever he wants. He throws himself into political intrigue and petty concerns with equal abandon. Family is what you make of it, and Akieryon wants as much as he can get. He just won’t worry too much about that thing his new friend(?) Tempest obviously isn’t telling him.
Half cozy, half unhinged, and thoroughly queer, Balances is a story of coming home.
people talking about fantasy will be like "well a character in a fantasy setting wouldn't say something like they're panromantic genderqueer or whatever" and it's like sure, probably not, but the flip of that is that sometimes in a fantasy culture people are having gay sex all the time and just think it's normal, or like their problems with other people's sexuality or identity aren't what you'd expect them to be in the modern US of A, either
I think in a lot of fantasy settings it's fine to just have a trans character go "yeah, I'm a man, deal with it, Mom" or even to have someone use terms like "gay" and "queer" because these are older than you think
but maybe have some fun with it, too, because in a lot of ancient cultures being queer meant you were holy, actually, and maybe the real problem is that your gay ass doesn't WANT to dedicate his life to the priesthood even if there ARE cute queens at the temple
Sorry for bringing homestuck to your doorstep. But that first bit is homestuck troll romances. A fantasy culture that doesn't care about gay sex but does care if you're filling out your relationship quadrants and how.(including funny moments of how troll kids understand relationships and how the human kids understand them, clashing) Youtubers have explained this better than I can.
And also, if you have a fantasy setting and don't want to use modern term, (+/or you have a conlang), it's a perfect opportunity to world build terms that mean the same thing without being that same thing.
There's like, soooo many types of fantasy settings, and allowing for soo many ways to handle queerness. A coffeeshop romantasy character probably would say they're a panromantic genderqueer. A character in someones worldbuilting petproject could say the same concepts about themselves but using the made up terms the author came up with. Someone else's dnd campaign turned written book series, probably has a character written with the mindset of they're panromantic gender queer, but that's never stated aside from observable behaviour.
I love fantasy for that. I think it can also be so fun to explore queer concepts in a fantasy setting (do the different fantasy races handle them different? Do they influence each other?(hai lady dwarf from discworld)How does magic play into queerness? Is transition easy, is it difficult? Is there support for such things as polygamy in the legal system? For found family? Is there value placed on queerness? How would that be seen? Is queerness normalised? Is it exceptionalised? Is it villainised? And by who?)
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