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🤎 24 | Any Pronouns | Artist+Writer. I post my art and hobbies here. Read my pinned post for more information! 🤎

[ateliercyanw]

Welcome!

I am a 24 year old artist and writer that shares their stuff on the internet. Here, you can find my artwork, hobbies, and random thoughts in one place. I blog about art, animals, animation, music, history, and archeology. I use any pronouns.

Here are some tags to check out:

#my work - My artwork. Includes sketches and mini-comics.

#ramblings - my own text posts. May include art if I'm feeling it...

#music - MP4s and images+gifs of musicians I listen to.

#art - misc. art from artists I like, scans from artbooks/animations, or from other artists on the platform.

#text - text posts.

#image - image posts.

gif - gifs.

#fandom - art/comics/misc from media I like.

I also have a Bluesky and Instagram. I'm more active on Bluesky.

I'd rather not have minors following me, thank you! Everyone else, welcome and have fun. 🤎

[ateliercyanw]

Finally, a character that matches my specialty: anime cat people.

Mad Mew Mew was a pleasant surprise for this chapter! I think Aqua and her are definitely standout characters for the chapter.

[dungeonlust]

Art by • Nobuteru Yūki

[ateliercyanw]

I always find it so funny (annoying 🙄) when people get all mopey and weird about relationships to the point where they project misery onto everyone all the time. I'm sorry your husband had skid marks on his boxers and couldn't stop jerking off to random women's feet but that has nothing to do with other people's relationships with dudes 😭 get help and get back on the apps! It's summer! There's hella cock outside and hella fun. The world is ending and you're gonna spend it whining online about an ex? Be serious! Get off the cross! We could use the wood...for our summer barbecue.

[ateliercyanw]

I miss the sketch. This looks bad ❤️

[ateliercyanw]

A preview. Or premew. I guess. It's scheduled to post tomorrow...

[ateliercyanw]

I miss the sketch. This looks bad ❤️

[ateliercyanw]

TLDR; women+people perceived as lesser than men often have to take whatever crumbs they can get to tell stories, and animation is like...the worst medium you can choose to be picked up for right off the bat if you want to Tell Stories for a living. Make a comic and let some studio pick up/adapt your shit to sell figurines, lol

[ateliercyanw]

Extra thoughts on the "why indie animation fandoms are like that and why merch is always involved" convo:

A lot of the animation and comics that people adore and just so happen to lack a profit incentive/backing were made with HUGE risks, or backing from sources that are only backing it for super specific reasons that isn't related to toys/comics. Tom Moore's Irish Mythology trilogy comes to mind.

He straight up says in a recent podcast (which I will link if I find it) that risk is a huge thing his studio takes with each animation since they're purely about storytelling/sharing what they believe is unsanitized Irish culture (in that triology), with no incentive to sell toys, books, comics, etc. Cartoon Saloon HAS merch, (a huge 25 year celebration artbook is coming out soon!) but that came mostly AFTER their movies hit critical acclaim. This route is super rare in the industry...

Ghibi, another beloved studio, also took huge risks and only got merch AFTER they were beloved by everyone. They used to kinda just make shit until they hit the jackpot with iyashikei work, and now they're like, The Cozy Anime Studio That Makes The Non Degenerate Anime Ever lmfao. Once the self-branding branding came, THEN came the explosion of merch. Again, rare.

And BOTH studios have adapted books into movies, so even they aren't immune to the "animation is MOSTLY for advertising something else" trap. I think that's why most creators stick to small animations advertising their comics and don't even want to get picked up all that much.

The reason why animation fandoms suck is because animation is made to appeal to Everyone Everywhere All The Time to maximize profit for the entire franchise, not just the movie/show, and so way too many people come together and consume the part they're attracted to and not the full picture. Hence The Discourse. See: Castlevania and how the fandom went bonkers when Netflix picked it up.

[fallout-lou-begas]

something that i find interesting about independent animation nowadays is that if you don't have studio/streamer backing, you have to release your work yourself on the internet, but you have to do it for free on the internet because virtually nobody is going to be willing to accept a paywall just for one original show, so what you have to do in order to make any money off of it is make all of your money from merchandising, but then this means that you show must be merchandisable and have very toyetic character designs that translate easily to plushies and whatnot, but then you also need to cater your show to people who are disproportionately inclined to buy merchandise like that in the first place so that your sales can be enough to sustain you, which means that even if you want to communicate complex or difficult ideas in your work, your independent animation project must attract (at least on a first impression) and retain viewers who are both very consumerist and very capable of rabid passion, which unfortunately has a single-circle shaped venn diagram with a lot of the most toxic fandom tendencies known to man, and this explains a lot of things about independent animation and its fandoms nowadays I think

[ecrivainsolitaire]

Other than the brief reign of cable television, this is how cartoons have always worked. Transformers, MLP, the thousand spinoffs of 80s movies, Jem and the Holograms, Spongebob, Avatar, Pokémon, the entire anime industry. This isn't just an indie thing; historically, no one but toy collectors has ever paid for cartoons to be made. That's why Netflix doesn't make any original animations, they just contract DreamWorks for cheap spinoffs of their movies where all the assets have already been made and all they have to pay for is the puppetry. Every fiction artist should be used to this by now. Cartoons must come with toys that pay for the production because no one will pay for them otherwise. It's been that way almost since television was invented. And before that, the Flintstones sold cigarettes.

[ateliercyanw]

Working...hoping to finish it by tomorrow night.

[ateliercyanw]

She's getting stronger...

[oi0u98ygth-deactivated20260120]

being mutuals is so... intimate... like u follow me but i also follow u? this is so forward i’m blushing....

[twistedpictures]

im off twelve steven universe percocet, i’m fumbling bisexual bitches left and right. i don’t give a shit. i had to smoke the grass i was too busy touching your waifu’s balls. I have precambrian sea kin memories i swim in Trilobite pussy. Puffed the Nagito pack so hard they’re flying pride flags half mast. this shit ain’t nothing to me man. Refer back to my bio motherfucker, check the pronouns you’ll see that I am him

[jenny-holzer]

[ateliercyanw]

Working...hoping to finish it by tomorrow night.

[ateliercyanw]

Posting some of my work to get my tags started. Meet some of my babies! 🤎❤️ Chongrak, Muireall, and Margarita (from left to right).

[kingslayerstew]

[otakunews01]

"Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia" upcoming TV Anime teaser PV unveiled

Air Date: July 2026

Production: Science Saru

In the 13th century, Fatima, a captive of the Mongol Empire, the most powerful empire on earth, was taken prisoner and assigned to serve in the imperial palace. With knowledge from Iran, the era's foremost experts on medicine and science, Fatima seeks a world in which she can display her talents. She meets Töregene, the sixth wife of the second emperor, Ögedei, who has mixed feelings about the Mongol Empire....