A place for art and things I like

I post drawings, maybe a bit of writing too. Clips, maybe? Whatever I wanna post, basically. Welcome! tag to search for my original stuff -> #mine! Other links -> https://linktr.ee/brainshock

[stellacosmickat]

ness won btw

[deaddogbrain]

imo the way you feel about groups it's fully socially acceptable to hate (like children or polyamorous people, among others) is the canary in the coal mine for underlying bigoted beliefs. if you're only supportive of marginalized groups when it's cool to do so, probably you don't actually care about marginalized groups, you care about other people thinking you care

[deaddogbrain]

there are 1 trillion people in the notes of this post saying "yeah! i mean i hate kids but they should have rights!" you hate kids? you mean you hate all members of an oppressed group solely for their membership in this group? right. why do you hate them? because they can't take care of themselves and need help? because they don't understand social norms and can be "annoying" and disrespect boundaries as a result? because they can be messy? because they don't understand things in the same way as you do? that's awesome. how do you feel about disabled people btw

[tropiyas]

why is he pointing that shit at his Pillar of Autumn 😭

[skelotan]

All of y’alls support helped boost my confidence right before a very important call. Thank you <3

PATREON

[psicheanima]

Backgrounds for CSM fan game: The alleyway to Reze’s cafe and Makima’s office

[moklahoma]

Came back from visiting family in Nigeria

[brainshock]

Ii: The Face of a Brother

Prelude piece to the next one adapting V: The Stand. I want to play up the drama of these last pieces to reflect the emotional stakes of the last songs of Act I.

I wonder if maybe I ought to vary my brushes as I paint with color. I use a flat brush for most of it, varying the size as I go. I dunno though.

[northstareclipse]

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

[psicheanima]

gambling addict named buckeye who accidentally cursed herself with a butterfly head after wishing for a permanent poker face

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

[status-quo-hater]

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

[toskarinfr]

>hear frantic clicking and the sounds of exertion

>must be a rhythm game player

>genuinely impressed at the apm

>look outside

>crabs are pinching a man to death

[skelotan]

I didn't know how to respond to this.

PATREON

[redstonedust]

we all know adult humans dont get enough enrichment but the other day i was walkin home past an empty playground and impulsively ran over to spin myself on this zipline merry-go-round contraption for a few minutes and it really did feel like it unlocked some neglected part of my brain. like damn we really should all go outside and play more. fuck. they werent kidding with this play time thing. have you guys heard about play time. it could be huge.

[brainshock]

i think about this literally all the time. it always makes me genuinely sad to think about how much fun i would have playing dodgeball, or hide 'n' seek, or tag, or boxball. with no mind paid to skill or score or competition really, just for its own sake.

but without a group of like-minded adults with the time and means, we have to settle for a sports league or martial arts, where there are emphasized concerns around performance and competition. and they COST MONEY JUST TO BE A PART OF. not that i begrudge that wholesale, but still, it sours me that i couldnt run in a field with my peers, crossing lines of cones to capture a flag.

video games and sports are really cool, but i miss the silly shit that was all fun and nothing else, the kind of stuff some adults would kinda frown and think 'that's for kids' when you suggest it

[beebundt]

little collection of bonnibellum wipssss ‼️

[psicheanima]

Disgust: A moment’s consideration will show that this is so.

[benrosehsb]

mashumaro-chan...

[benrosehsb]

various mother3/earthbound shitposts