Changeling Upkeep

My main blog where I post about Social Justice, Witchcraft, Polytheism, and geekery. Genderfluid (he/they/she all good), white, American, bisexual.

[dykes-deactivated20200607]

i wanna give a shout out to all lgbt people who thought they were another identity before realizing they were something else. lesbians realizing they’re trans men, bi/pan people realizing they’re a lesbian/gay, binary trans people realizing they’re genderfluid, etc. even if you don’t know if your current identity is the final stop, even if you think it’s a “phase”, or you don’t know what label fits you best, you’re on a journey to self discovery, every step matters, it shapes you into the person you are or aspire to be, and you’re not fake or a bad person for figuring things out.

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

Texts From Superheroes

Facebook | Twitter | Patreon

[wesleygasm]

Thousands got out today in airports to protest against Trump’s Muslim Ban singing “This Land is Your Land.” and a Federal judge has been able to block the Muslim Ban but it’s only a temporary fix so pls if you’re american Call your member of Congress and demand they overturn the ban for good! if you can’t or aren’t american but able financially pls donate to the ACLU.

To everyone who is protesting at airports: you are heroes. To everyone currently detained: you are loved.

[theyllneverknowwhathitem]

I just want to bring attention to the fact that this is one of the first times I see a major male character die ONLY to further a woman’s story in mainstream media, not to mention it’s WARCRAFT, something that has stayed relevant for more than a decade, and compared to how many times a woman has died only to further a man’s story, I’m fucking giggling in delight at everybody’s reaction THIS HAS BEEN SEETHING IN ME SO LONG AND IT’S FINALLY TURNED THE TABLES FOR ONCE AND IT FEELS SO GOOD.

Don’t talk to me i’m not a person right now i’m a bag of pure salt.

[changelingupkeep-blog]

Yeah except it was a the one major lore character coded Afro-Caribbean so.

[theyllneverknowwhathitem]

Well honestly I never really thought of it in that direction cause I’m not really interested in the entire picture, only just certain characters but I see your point and thanks for bringing this up to me

[changelingupkeep-blog]

NP! Vol’jin just always has been one of my favs so I’ve paid attention to a lot of his aspects (such as he actually has a huge woman fanbase, and how a lot of the chest-thumping dudes who supported ORCS and GARROSH and etc threw a fit when Vol’jin got power. The forums were SUPER FUN and filled with UBER WANK at that time, with many disparaging Vol’jin’s “manliness”). Because otherwise if it was like, Thrall-the-Metzen-stand-in getting fridged or something, I would be right there with you.

[theyllneverknowwhathitem]

I just want to bring attention to the fact that this is one of the first times I see a major male character die ONLY to further a woman’s story in mainstream media, not to mention it’s WARCRAFT, something that has stayed relevant for more than a decade, and compared to how many times a woman has died only to further a man’s story, I’m fucking giggling in delight at everybody’s reaction THIS HAS BEEN SEETHING IN ME SO LONG AND IT’S FINALLY TURNED THE TABLES FOR ONCE AND IT FEELS SO GOOD.

Don’t talk to me i’m not a person right now i’m a bag of pure salt.

[changelingupkeep-blog]

Yeah except it was a the one major lore character coded Afro-Caribbean so.

[ayellowbirds]

the Crewniverse really need to get to work making positive butch representation

i get that it takes a long time to plan out and make these episodes, so responses to criticism from something that just aired probably won’t be seen for at least a season, but JEEZ.

[changelingupkeep-blog]

*sees spoilers about the newest SU episode* You know what fuck it I’m not watching another damn episode until we get some positive butch/masculine presenting representation like holy fucking shit. Wow. For a show that is so big on diversity and coolness yeah let us make the two big buff gems into those who are physically dangerous to our heroes and who shatter gems/threaten to shatter gems BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK NOT. *flips off the Crewinverse as I sail into the sun*

[mslibrarianreads-blog]

Me.

[pussreboots]

Me too

[shayera-librarian]

Same

[30thcenturyboy]

gpoy

[4367345g34]

First of all, thanks for everything folks. Sticking through with this ddumb blog of mine even when i sometimes hardly post anything for weeks or months on end. Through all the subject matter changes, the art blocks, the occasional silly text post. Just thanks a bunch. I know to a lot of people 2k might not seem like a lot, but to me it most certainly is. There’s something so important to me about the fact that, on a blog separate from anything but my art, I’ve managed to reach so far.

Anyways, as a thanks, I’d like to do a giveaway! An art giveaway! I’ve always wanted an excuse to do one, and this is finally, I feel, a perfect opportunity for such a thing ;V!!

How this’ll go down is, I’ll pick from a randomized number gen, as these things often go. 3 winners will be chosen and contacted thru tumblr inbox/ask box system! p simple. If winners don’t get back to me within 3 days I’ll select a new winner, again v simple. 

Each winner will recieve a fully done piece of art of whatever they’d like! Preferably OCs or FCs of nearly any fandom with reference! I might be open to fan art as well depending on the fandom :v Limit is two character per request.

Rules are as follows:

likes & reblogs count, you can reblog as many times as you like, idrc

no giveaway blogs, beause c’mon man. like relly.

must be following this blog! this is for my followers, the tru mvps.

must have inbox open for me to contact you! If I can’t contact you, how the hek are u supposed to win an art???

THATS ABOUT IT THEN, GIVEAWAY ENDS JULY 27TH @ 5PM EDT

 GUD LUK I LOVE U ALL.

[4367345g34]

Rebloggin for the not 5 am crowd haha ;v

[4367345g34]

5 more days on this!!!!!!!!

[su-fairlanes]

Som rough breakfast doodles. My only question: when are they getting married

jokes rooted in new-episode spoilers

[terezis]

Steven Universe: Uzo Aduba plays a new Crystal Gem — exclusive

The Crystal Gems are going to get a little bigger when Steven Universe returns; the Cartoon Network favorite is introducing a new Crystal Gem as well as an all-musical episode.

Steven Universe has shifted to an erratic episode schedule recently, but its upcoming event Steven Universe: Summer Adventures will air a new episode every single weeknight for 4 weeks. Yup, you did that math right — that means there will be 20 new episodes airing between Monday, July 18 and Friday, Aug. 12.

Toward the end of the event in August, fans will meet Bismuth, voiced by guest star Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black). The 22-minute special “Bismuth” will introduce the purple, rainbow-haired gem, who fought alongside her fellow Crystal Gems in the battle to save Earth over 5,000 years ago. Get your first look Bismuth’s reunion with her friends in the exclusive clip, above.

[blackfairypresident]

some ppl can trace their ancestry back by centuries and that’s amazing to me, i cant wrap my head around that, that doesnt seem real to me

idk just, shoutout to everyone who has lost family records and entire cultures and languages due to colonization & slavery. it fucking hurts, it hurts so bad

[theslaybymic]

And two popular brands that promised SPF 50 were actually only SPF 8.

Follow @this-is-life-actually

[thememacat]

This could mean the difference between staying healthy and getting cancer for a lot of people. Damn!

[littlefeatherr]

This is important for many with autoimmune diseases because most of the medicine - in addition to the diseases themselves- cause severe photosensitivity.

[emariedraws]

Today my sister and I were talking about how Kirk is hugely mischaracterized by most media and we came to the realization that Kirk is way less like Zapp Branigan and INFINITELY more like Mabel Pines

[changelingupkeep-blog]

So. Uh. Tomorrow is my B-day, yeah? I... might be going to my first adult store.

[oneofthosecrazycatladies]

So I’m on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put “I do not own [insert fandom here]” before their story.

Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. This is a FAN fiction site. I’m fully aware that you don’t own the fandom or the characters. That’s why it’s called FAN FICTION.

[adiwriting]

Oh you youngins… How quickly they forget.

Back in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creators… This was your “please don’t sue me, I’m poor and just here for a good time” plea.

Cause guess what? That shit used to happen.

[ohbeckoh]

how soon they forget ann rice’s lawyers.

[emma-regina4ever]

What happened with her lawyers.

[racethewind10]

History became legend. Legend became myth….  And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Rice’s lawyers. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again. The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked.

[demonicae]

One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fans… (that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.)

I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators aren’t making money off of it. It is someone else’s intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.)

The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone else’s IP. Or they DGAF… and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. Either way: this isn’t much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.

But Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it.

The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)

And woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators ‘original intentions.’ (Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.)

Imagine getting sued over a headcanon…

Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long.

[pagerunner-j]

all of this

[fanfichasruinedmylife-deactivat]

Reblogging because I can’t believe there are people out there who don’t know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers. 

[hils79]

Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but it’s not like it is now. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this.

I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. It’s a relatively new thing.

I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out!

Fandom history is important.

[changelingupkeep-blog]

me: well my straight friends from middle school all said I am asexual, and I don’t have a problem per se with the label, because it kind of does represent my feelings towards sexuality, I just don’t know what to do with myself right now. am I the only person like this? where are the other asexual people?

lgbt tumblr blogs: Asexuality is a thing, and part of the lgbt+ community!

me: fuckin sweet

ace discourse: Not So Fast! you’re not Gay Enough™ for us to include you in the ingroup of Historically Oppressed Gays And Trans People. since youre not Gay Enough™ by our standards, you’re one of The Straights™ so we're excluding you and all asexuals who arent Gay Enough™ from our community, because youre Straight™

me: but I literally was just excluded from the privileged group The Straights™ by literal privileged Straight people. where do I go now?

bi people, from under the bus: hey