[birchbierart]

Last time I posted actual art was November WHOOPS lol

Nothing coming soon I’m busy playing tomodachi life and Minecraft and mooching off my mom cuz the job market sucks

Actually maybe something coming soon I still have like 10 different wips that are 75% complete I might finish and post one. Big maybe.

I might post some tomodachi life clips in the meantime. I love my little pet blorbos :)

[dead-dove-ble]

Actually you SHOULD make problematic content. You SHOULD explore dark or taboo topics. You SHOULD have a space where you can cope with your traumas or explore sensitive topics in a way that doesn't hurt anyone.

[shiptillyoudie]

Also you should make problematic content for funsies. You don't need to have had trauma or need to be coping in order to explore dark creativity. You can just be a human who wants to explore dark and taboo topics because you want to. That's completely normal, btw.

Every single person on this planet thinks about dark and taboo things. It's literally the most normal thing in the world.

Go draw the horror porn and be free.

[tackypies]

we should all be more like david cronenberg and write fucked up stuff. For Funsies

[birchbierart]

Fuckkkkkk reblogged stuff to wrong blog again sowwy 😞

[birchbierart]

Sorry it’s been nearly 3 months since I last posted actual art 😭 all I have r WIPs so here’s a doodle of me in the outlast trials cuz it’s been my brainworm since june

(the little drawings in the speech bubbles r supposed to represent easterman and coyle btw <3)

[absurdlyinaccurate]

me, the motherfucker with over 50 abandoned works in progress: i have an idea

[unuvocheto]

If I could somehow find everyone who ever bullied me and ask them why they targeted me, not a single one would say it was because I was autistic. None of them even knew I was.

Instead they’d say it was because I liked Pokemon too much after it stopped being cool, or my clothes looked ridiculous and I wore the same pair of jeans 3 days a week, or that I was just weird/nerdy/unpopular. In many, many cases, that is what neurodiversity looks like. Not someone with an obvious disability, but someone who’s just weird.

I see so many allistics and neurotypicals on here that claim to be anti-ableism but turn around and make jokes at the expense of people who are eccentric but harmless.

If you’re an allistic that claims to support autistic people, but then you turn around and make fun of the woman wearing a bizarre outfit or the guy who speaks in a monotone or the teenager who carries a teddy bear everywhere, you are hurting autistic people who do those same things.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

also when I say “fiction cannot cause bodily harm to real people” I am talking about fiction that glorifies bad things too.

a fanfiction or a piece of media can depict things that make you uncomfortable in a glorified manner, but at the end of the day it is fiction, it’s your job to use your common sense, as a grown adult, and understand that “hey, these things are bad in real life, but a fanfic is all fiction and play pretend, so it’s fine”, even though the bad things in fiction are glorified, it is still fiction. nobody in real life is harmed by the way it is being portrayed.

you have the power to stop consuming it any time you want. it cannot hurt you the second you turn off your tv or click out of a fic.

but you do not have the power to tell other people what they can or can’t create/consume.

also, no, ao3 will not remove a dark fic because it glorified rape or whatever. anti-censorship stance aside, whether or not a fanfic glorified bad things is entirely subjective. you cannot demand ao3, a site created by freaks for freaks, to remove something because you think it’s too disgusting for your personal comfort.

a gentle reminder that the entire point ao3 was created in the first place is to host “fucked up fics that were banned from other platforms with censorship, fics that glorified taboo things and portrayed them in explicit details”.

I have talked about this like, a hundred times on here but “if seeing bad things in fiction alone is enough to make someone hurt real people in real life”, then the actual problem is that person’s inability to separate fiction from reality, and chances are that they are already a danger to themself and other people, with or without the fictional things they consume.

I have been enjoying the cannibal aesthetic, and the romanticization of murders and cannibalism, from nbc hannibal for decades, and so do millions of other people worldwide. guess what, the show didn’t actually turn their fans into actual murderers or cannibals, despite how it glorified and romanticized bad things.

it’s okay for you to be uncomfortable by taboo things in fiction or how they are portrayed, but just because you are personally uncomfortable by it doesn’t mean other people have to share your personal views.

it’s okay to enjoy fucked up things in fiction and embrace your dark fantasies. wanna glorify and romanticize your dead dove fic? go ahead and have fun. that fictional character looks hot covered in blood anyway 😋

[paperstorm]

Wait I’m sorry parent/child incest fic?????? Why does that exist? Why do you KNOW that exists?????? What the fuck 🤢

I feel like you can sort of tell how long (or not) someone has existed in fannish spaces by how outraged they get about things like this. Like rings in a tree trunk lol. I've been in so many fandoms. At least one, but often multiple at the same time, since I was a teenager. I've seen just. Everything.

Sex pollen. Mpreg. Incest. Monster fucking. Tentacles. Pairings like Snape/Hermione that would be crazy abusive and illegal if they were real. Wild kinks. The babygirlification of all kinds of villains. So much RPF (the 'I sincerely believe they are secretly a couple' kind and the 'this is fictional but it's fun to imagine they're in love' kind.)

You learn to just scroll past shit you don't like or unfollow people or filter tags. The tldr of fandom is that humans are weird as fuck. And creative, and unhinged, and traumatized, and talented. And amazing. And every single thing that you clutch your pearls about 'well surely someone doesn't want to read/write THAT!' - someone does. Probably lots of people do. And those people are perfectly normal. In their offline lives, they're parents and siblings and they have jobs and friends and they go about their lives and they don't cause any harm. And that's the sticking point. There's this really concerning, frankly highly Evangelical idea that if someone enjoys the wrong kind of fiction, they are obviously a Bad Person. But nothing is that simple, and thought crimes aren't real, and you definitely have some thoughts or ideas that someone else would find fucked up. You don't have to like every kind of fic that exists. I certainly don't. But shaming people for their harmless fantasies about fictional characters is so boring. I saw Goody Proctor enjoying a Toxic Ship! Good for you, I'll alert the pope.

[juneebugs]

[deadsprout]

i dont want to be in a fandom that critisizes the choices of fictional characters like they are human beings. i want to see THEORY and ANALYSIS and STORY STRUCTURE and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!! I WANT PARALLELS AND MOTIFS AND VISUAL CUES!!! They're not REAL they are TOOLS so stop acting like they are people who made bad choices and should be punished. of course they made bad choices!!! that shit is funny and cool to watch!!

[birchbierart]

I finished this like,,, december last year? and just never posted it cuz I kept saying “lemme just play with the filters some more” and then it was like sunk cost fallacy where I was like “noo it’s too late now. it’s been too long since I drew this for me to post it”

But fuck it I rlly like this piece :) plus this is also the first drawing I did of my current sona design lol so I’ve kinda grown an attachment to it

[birchbierart]

Fanart of the awesome Salem! (@wolfertinger666)

I had so much fun drawing him and I’m super proud of how this turned out- hope u like it!! ^w^

(Featuring a buncha alternate versions under the cut lol)

Versions w a more saturated filter I liked + an alternate pose with the arm down that I never finished:

Some flat color versions from before I started shading:

And finally the very early sketches! :D

[swallowthekn1fe]

"They tried to kill eachother!!" oh my godddd that was only a couple of timessss and they were literally flirtingggg shut uppppp

[birchbierart]

Ok… so I haven’t finished the other piece I mentioned was nearly done 😅 …but I did make this sketch!!

Anyways hero corruption my GOAT I need more evil Robin 🙌

If I finish this it’ll prolly take twenty million years so fuck it I post the sketch

Happy Halloween! :3

[birchbierart]

I am so close to finishing this fanart. It’s been like two weeks since I started it. I’m having so much fun working on it tho that I wanna keep making it better instead of half assing it. Fuckkkk 😭😭 hell of my own making

[birchbierart]

I have such a bad habit of ‘working on’ like 20 wips at once. I just popcorn between them, making small amounts of progress at a time unless I randomly get the motivation to finish one or I start a new piece. So when I finally finish something it’s been like a year or two since I first started it 😭

Currently I have like 5 at 70% finished, 15 at 30%, 1 at 99% that I haven’t touched in at least half a year, and a new one I started yesterday that’s actually going rlly well.

I miss being in school and having my daily set aside drawing time 😔 (drawing instead of listening to the teacher). My art progress has slowed down so much since I finished high school and even more so since I dropped out of college.

[birchbierart]

I wonder if anyone else but me can see the difference in my art from when I was drawing on MediBang on computer via a tablet, when I was drawing on MediBang on my phone w my finger, when I was drawing on MediBang on an iPad w a pen, vs now when I’m using Procreate on that same iPad

I feel like my art has kinda degraded since I switched to Procreate. I was starting to get more into shading/blending/rendering/painting right before I switched and since then I’ve kinda given up on it cuz I just can NOT figure out how I’m supposed to blend properly in Procreate.

I miss my MediBang wet watercolor brush 😔