guy with one million interests

billiem (like william) - 22 yr old bio sci butch - he/she - 🇯🇵 🇨🇦 - MST

[cowpunchem]

howdy!

if i had a nickel for every time i resurrected this blog, i would have so many fucking nickels

navigating my page:

em’s heart — posts i related to

em’s rambles — exactly as described, could involve meta yelling ab some character or another, could be entirely incoherent

lil guy — some sort of small creature

teehee — stash of shitposts and things that made me laugh

inch resting — fun facts and cool tidbits

the more you know — references resources etc (ranging from writing to cooking so on so forth, should also be tagged w smth like that)

this is a psa — important information, typically more geared towards activism

my art has a fairly inconsistent posting schedule but all pieces will be under the “cowpunchart” tag and my fics will (eventually) be up on my ao3. you can also find my playlists on spotify!

please know that i will post/reblog nsfw or semi-nsfw; these posts will be tagged the same way i would tag for trigger / flash warnings but if you need something specific filtered out for ya, feel free to let me know 🫡

happy scrolling!

[numbersareimaginary]

Really nice seeing queer kids out in the world. Like, omg we exist and they feel safe to exist in public and and and!!!

[numbersareimaginary]

LETS HEAR IT FOR LESBIAN TEENS WITH BLUE HAIR AND PRONOUNS

[jovialgnomejpeg]

yo mama so less busy than usual she

[jovialgnomejpeg]

[less-depresso-more-espresso]

A standee I'm making for my next con :D !!

COMMISSION INFO || PATREON

[jame7t]

tumblr is like an abandoned space station & you all are the thing in the vents

[jame7t]

not me though. im girl with tanktop

[beybuniki]

kiki and bouba

[malwarechips]

"i think", i say, about my own ocs, who i made,

[doujinshi]

[lewadny]

happy june to everyone, especially my fellow aroaces

[jorolle]

"And it seems like it's worth your time, right? And, by the way, there's actually- the superpower inside of feeling alien is admitting that you might be an alien."

Into the Mud Podcast Ep. 81: The Superpower of Feeling Alien with Project Hail Mary's James Ortiz - What James Ortiz would say to people who feel foreign and alien

[gothish]

[inamindfarfaraway]

A Series of Unfortunate Events AU where the Baudelaire siblings (after however many tragedies you like) are taken in by the Addams family. This one sticks. Count Olaf is dead within two days of showing up.

[derrickwildsun-deactivated20250]

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

[sci-fantasy]

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)

[transhuman-priestess]

Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This is true of all censorship.

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[dragon-in-a-fez]

people act like having breakfast for dinner is weird and special when in fact it's the most widespread and normalised meal identity transgression out there. talk to me when you're having dinner for breakfast, snack for dinner, lunch for brunch,

[mulledmilk]

My fav ever

[wulfhalls]

nosferatu (2024) dir. robert eggers // kiss of death (1908) by włodzimierz błocki