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Announcing my brand new Patreon! It's finally here! As a welcome gift, all paid members receive free digital PDFs of my sketchbooks and past zines. Posts will begin next week starting with character designs and preproduction art for my new comic. I'm so excited! ❤️🌙

#art #beautiful

captainofthetidesbreath

No run-up because I am strapped for time right now, but 38 items. Grab your card at BingoBaker.

#Critical Role #CritRole bingo

saintessinthegutter

*sobbing* i love em

#love this #art #comics #Critical Role #Halandil Fang #Thaisha Lloy #Kattigan Vale #campaign 4

twinklestarss

Batten down the hatches! Tonight's #CriticalRole is a long one at 5 hours 4 minutes without the break, and should end about 3:14 am EDT. Break about 12:18am. Lots to cover tonight, apparently! #CriticalRoleSpoilers

#oh good to know #i will not be staying up for this one #since still have to work tomorrow #critical role

captainofthetidesbreath

ngl, Gus will in fact love Demodus, this is the exact bullshit he wants in his life, everyone else in court is in DANGER because Gus is going to enable Demodus's nonsense SO BADLY

#so true #CR spoilers #critical role #campaign 4

jay-rayart

FLY is a story about a boy who gets a second chance. Help his story take flight June 9th 11am EST on Kickstarter. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings I hope this story lifts the world to a brighter place.

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

#art #comics

paleo-bug

Life-sized Microraptor, done with alcohol markers

naamahdarling

YES!!!!

#oh cool #art #dinosaurs

satineart13

A very nice project I got to do for my photography class !

#very cool #photography

thestuffedalligator

Night Watch is a masterpiece and Hogfather will always be a personal favourite, but to me, to me, Going Postal will always be as close to perfect as a Discworld book can be. It introduces a new protagonist who immediately knocks it out of the park and establishes himself as one of the most iconic and fantastic Discworld protagonists in a pantheon of heavy hitters. He's a weasel. He's touched by divinity. He keeps getting himself into trouble because he has an unshakeable need to escalate. He's killed 2.338 people. He's apparently very attracted to women who smoke.

He's paired off against the perfect villain, his equal and opposite who has learned to cheat and swindle and con behind the language of corporate speak, "we hope and trust that our valued and loyal customers will bear with us over the coming months as we interact synergistically with changed management and our striving for excellence." It's a story about the capital-fuelled enshittification of a technology that can be good and improve the lives of thousands and how monopolies will literally strangle innovation.

It's a story about delivering a message from the dead.

thestuffedalligator

His name is Moist. I just realized that I spent this whole post without mentioning that his name is Moist and it’s important to me that you know this if you don’t

#great book #well said #going postal #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #moist von lipwig #meta

star-shard

Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.

And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'

Both are beautiful forms of writing.

#accurate #fanfic

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

hypokeimena

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

#well said #thought provoking #good way to think

dustdotorg

sometimes you will see a joke circulate within a fandom and at first it's all fun and games but then the slow and terrible realization starts to seep in that this will become in fact a widely-accepted way to read a specific situation between characters that were subject of said joke and there is nothing you can do about it but to watch the horrors unfold in real time

#yes this #fandom