So uh, hi! I'm Tori or Artsy, whichever you wanna call me :D I'm a young adult with a love for art and a complicated affair with writing. And right now, I also have a very big liking for the one and only Team Fortress 2. So you can expect a LOT of that from me Ć³wo Plus some other stuff I like.
I have a DeviantArt if anyone wants to watch me there, or see more of my art. I only plan on uploading fanart here, so if you'd like to see more stuff of mine, you can take a look!
(If you just want to see my art on here, check the "artsy's art" tag hehe)
Important info is under the mercs <3 please read it before following me.
ā¢I am in my mid-20s. I aim to keep my profile relatively SFW, though some violence or suggestive stuff may come through (bit inevitable with TF2 heh). I'll do my best to tag stuff as needed.
ā¢If you are a minor, PLEASE filter the tag "mdni". And don't interact with those posts! Å_Å
ā¢I block literally everyone and everything I don't like (or even if I just suspect something is off). Usually it's for the sake of my own well-being, so don't take it personally.
āDNI: conservatives/right-wingers; anyone against good-faith identities; T.R.A.S.H. (yes that includes TERFs, as well as TRFs); proshippers (which I define as people who ship gross shit such as minor/adult or incest. Don't come at me about definitions, I don't wanna hear it), radqueers and other similar groups, and people who willingly interact with them; rape fetishists and those who create or consume "dubcon" or "noncon"; plus more.
āIf you say or reblog shit like "people need to separate fiction and reality" or anything like that, you're getting blocked. I'm sick and tired of seeing people say such ableist and media-illiterate remarks. Either learn to consume media critically or fuck off.
āSpy is Scout's father and shipping them together is GROSS. Do not interact with me if you ship them AT ALL, I don't care if you claim you aren't shipping them in an incestuous way, or if you claim it's somehow not incest. You are, and it is. You're just dancing around that because you're mad no one wants to interact with you for SHIPPING INCEST. Fuck off.
āI am a staunch anti-proshipper and I am very vocal about it. I am not up for any arguments. Proshippers and the like, as well as anyone who interacts with them, are blocked on sight.
Sigh, ok...anyway.
ā¢DON'T REPOST MY ART! (Reblogs are 100% OK, of course.) If you would like to use a fanart of mine in a fancam or something, please ask permission first! Same with pfps and banners, unless I made them for you :]
I will edit and add more to this post as needed! If you want some more info about me, check my DA profile. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
(DNI banner and blinkie both made by me! Feel free to nab the former if you like it :3 credit for the mercs PNG here)
so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone's blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it's just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else's apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch
This is not really requesting something but I.. I'm in shock, Ginger did you change the size of blu heavy's hand because if not that means canonically heavy's hand is around 2 ft long and I don't know what to do with that information so I'm giving it to you..
Sorry for not asking you for your consent but I just needed to measure them, as I don't have source filmmaker myself so this is my only reliable way of doing so.. please tell me that you adjusted heavy's hands so they would be bigger..
I'm sorry to tell u but I didn't change a single thing, I was thinking maybe the perspective played a part but...nope...his paws are just that big. If anything I always try and make it slightly smaller cause this is just ridiculous <3!!
a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic
the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal
this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately
somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large
following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor
today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea
the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil
Went to google more news about professor Jason Arday, and I swear to God the first two pages of research are rancid propaganda sites smearing the man's reputation, up to and including popular Brazilian news magazine Veja.
This article by professor Kehinde Andrews clarifies more about the story of racist harassment Arday has been suffering since he fucking got a teaching job at Cambridge in the first place, in 2023, as the FIRST Black professor in that fucking stupid institution, who sure is taking it's sweet time defending their worker, despite already fucking checking his work for plagiarism and saying he didn't do it:
Arday's resignation has reignited questions about race and who is truly accepted at the highest levels of British academia
Several of the academics who harassed this man into suicide do not seem to have suffered at all in their academic careers. Actually, Dave Harris, who lost his Emeritus title for his racist behavior back in 2024 (something the news only call "criticizing Critical Race Theory", instead of "sent racist emails to fellow black academics"), was defended by Plymouth University, where he used to work, and fucking got the title back earlier this year.
1. He wasnāt the first Black Professor at Cambridge, but he WAS the youngest X
2. He was ALSO autistic, and nonverbal for the first 11 years of his life X
The rest of the story unfolds pretty much as described. And he was a fucking Sociologist studying racial equity in schools and academia. They publicly bullied a black autistic man to suicide for being imperfect whilst asserting a place for blackness in academia.
Just so weāre clear, if I point out that you did something racist, thatās not the same as me thinking youāre irremediably terrible. You did a racist thing.
You think you donāt do racist things, homophobic things, etc? You do. I caught myself in fat phobic and homophobic lines of thinking/speech just this morning. Iām fucking gay married. Nothing disqualifies you from acting in a way that reflects the society you exist in. We are obliged to fight it. Why not fight it in honesty and with camaraderie?
When everyone sides with āforgivingā and āacceptingā abusers over victims, this just results in the victims getting de facto ostracized as they attempt to move on with their lives and not interact with their abuser any more yet they then find that there are no spaces that will not welcome their abuser with open arms. Plus the abuser, when not identified as such, when given no reason to change their behavior, has no reason not to reoffend.
āNone of my sisters are disposable!ā Except for victims of abuse, according to this logic.
I also find it interesting on a rhetorical level that if someone puts up boundaries that exclude rapists, that makes them a āmonster,ā but a rapist categorically doesnāt get called a monster but a āsisterā that must be protected. What the hell kind of standards are those?
Iāve seen this type of social dynamic happen before, both among trans people and among cis people. Itās horrible.
