We’re All Cringe And Then We Die

Call me Ash || she/they || matching with @rocafe, pfp by @noko12

[ashokad2]

If you're here, you're probably looking for my art blog! @artshokad2

If you're here not because of my art, hello there, i'm ash! This is my silly reblog paradise and if you follow me you will probably regret it for the rest of eternity UNLESS you are a big fan of

-mcyt in general

-team rancher

-pearlescentmoon

-stupid silly things

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[piksiew]

bacteriography portrait of Five Pebbles I made from yeast , mold , acrylic paints and other stuff i found

[ashokad2]

banging out my tunes (#mytunes)

[ashokad2]

I AM FREE (mostly)

[briannyssey]

dude star wars is so good and/or bad and/or mediocre sometimes, depending

[rocafe]

hey Cafe. its pride month. you know what that means.

Huh?

What?

Do you want me to make like-

Gay creechurs?

What?

[ashokad2]

:3

[spaghettihell]

It’s pride month you know what that means

[the-quartz-moon]

Is it sword time? I think it's sword time.

[spaghettihell]

SWORD TIME!!!!!!!

[visenyaism]

80s misogyny saved the Star Wars galaxy because Darth Vader wasted all his time and effort trying to convince his starry-eyed gayboy empath son to become an evil space fascist when if anyone had any point asked his daughter “hey do you ever just want to KILL these people” she would’ve been shooing lightning out of her hands to prove a point in like 10 minutes

[pierogiy]

Caught Up On My Stories BTW. Handling It

[tieflingkisser]

[a-thousand-suns-one-more-light]

If you’re still on windows 10 it’s there as well. Tho it’s under Devices>typing>typing insights.

[dechtir]

[transmechanicus]

[ashokad2]

@rocafe your happy place!

[lvmimis]

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

[alanaisalive]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[iguanamouth]

oh shit

[throughshadow-to-the-edgeofnight]

[alanaisalive]

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

[striving-artist]

At time of posting, this is at 711.6k notes

29 Days Remain

[nelc]

Only 12 days left.

[triflesandparsnips]

It’s Saturday, May 30, 3:18 PM EDT

The note count as of 3:12 PM EDT was 742.4K.

We’re almost 258,000 notes short of the Committment To The Bit Tumblr Curse goal, or what I am choosing to call:

The Bear Nessiecity

You know what to do.

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[ashokad2]

wait qhat. tell me about your imposter au?

Okay so. Do you remember like a little over a year ago when grian and co played 3d among us and tango 3rd impostered with jimmy. And everyone in the rancher fandom collectively lost their minds.

I didnt watch what actually happened there until like, several months later and it immediately gave me so many brain worms i had to make an au. Cafe can confirm I went absolutely insane about it while watching. (like what the actual fuck was even that bit oh my goodness everything about it was so ????? hello?????? anyways.)

Basically, it's an among us au!! yay!! Except i cannot be normal about anything to do with space ever so there will be copious amounts of worldbuilding. In terms of plot and character progression it’s some of my best work ever. I have one like, “act”, if you want to call it that, entirely plotted and fleshed out already, which has pretty much never happened before. It is suuuch a fun au for so many reasons and i love it so dearly.

But my limiting factor for actually writing it? Sci-fi as a genre is pretty much sacred to me. And while i may have a section of the plot and general worldbuilding structures down, there is a lot i still want to learn about space and planets and physics and heck even societal and governmental structures before I would feel I can do the concept justice. Because in a setting like this, everything about the world will affect the characters and the trajectory of the story and especially how they are portrayed. And i'm not willing to start on a half-baked foundation for this au.

There are a couple things I know i want to do! Most notably: this universe follows a timeline of humanity essentially destroying earth beyond repair, within roughly the next 100 years or so from modern day. So there's a mad dash for the tech to break the restraints of lightspeed, and they do end up being able to mostly get off of earth and start bumbling their way into the wider cosmos. I'm still figuring out exactly what that means but that's where we're at :)

Thank you so much for the ask basil!! Answering this was a very nice lunch break distraction from the horrors and i adore yapping about aus.

[staceythinx]

Erosion by Tamsin van Essen. Who knew parasitic invasion could be so beautiful?

van Essen on her project:

This work explores erosion and the disruption of form. Focusing on biological erosion, I wanted to convey the idea of a host being attacked and eaten away by a parasitic virus, highlighting the creeping spread of the infection as it corrupts the body. I have produced a series of angular porcelain forms, sandblasted to wear the surface and reveal inner strata. This aggressive process, contrarily, creates a delicate vulnerability in the shape. The translucency of the porcelain and the interruption of the surface make it possible to glimpse through to layers beneath, creating a tension between the seen and the obscured.