[Icon ID: Photo of a maned wolf putting their paw up. /end ID.] - [Header ID: Drawing of Jake Long in dragon form, curled around Danny Phantom with his head resting on Phantom's lap as Phantom absentmindedly strokes his hair and he scrolls on his phone. /end ID.]
Hiya there, I'm cutestlildoggo, but you can also call me Doggo, North, or Beetle if you'd like! Any pronouns are fine. I'm an artist and storyteller!
This blog is for reblogs, art, and occasional fandom thoughts
Married to @tuekytail, parent of 22 + the Fenton kids /j
[ID: Drawing if the artist’s favorite characters lined up side-by-side. From left to right: Ethoslab, drawn as a snow leopard hybrid; Danny Phantom with a gas mask, blue skin, pointed ears, and long tail, hovering in the air; Damian Wayne as Robin, a knife in his hand; Bart Allen as Impulse, leaning to one side with one arm outstretched; Jackson Jekyll sitting and reading, a foldable cane beside him; Holt Hyde standing with a flame-decorated cane. /End ID.]
-> Fandoms
WOF
Riordanverse
MCYT
Danny Phantom
AD:JL
DCU
Monster High, somewhat
-> Other blogs
@cutestlildoggo-doodlez - All Art
@glare-hybrid - MCYT
@comics-georg - Superheroes
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DPxHC au
-> About interactions:
Asks and reblogs with comments are very welcome
I’m perfectly fine with interacting regardless of age but will not be sharing my own age. I will most likely not interact if you have an age-based DNI
I don’t have a DNI but will block you if I deem necessary (though usually if I already know you, you’ll at least get a warning)
Userboxes below!!
[ID: Four userboxes. First says “this user has no DNI. Listen to your own.” Second says “This user loves feedback on their art/writing,” third says “This user is pro endo,” and the last one says "this user prefers tonetags!" /end ID.]
Userbox Links: no dni
Okie, that’s all!! Thank you for reading and please take care! :D
I'm an artist and medical student, and I use art to help me pay some bills.
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I am an artist and medical student and creator of Art-Res, a blog where I write and curate art resources. Hopefully you find art that bring
Sometimes when I go hundreds pages deep into people’s Tumblr archives, I find really funny posts and I weigh the pros and cons of liking/reblogging them.
Pros: I’ll have access to them later because they’re fucking hilarious
Cons: They might think I’m creepy. Despite the fact that it’s public and on the Internet, it is not socially acceptable to let anyone know the extent that you creeped their archives.
I hereby extend blanket permission for anyone to creep on my archive, and to like and reblog posts from it if they want to. It’s really quite flattering.
Yeah, this isn’t a Tumblr thing. Everyone here loves it when they wake up to 97 notifications and they’re all likes and reblogs from the same person of shit you posted five years ago.
User that exhibits the actively curious, reblog-spamming, tag-digging behavior is an endangered species that must be preserved at all costs. No seriously I view this kinda stuff as a big, massive, yuuuuuge compliment. Please don’t let this culture die.
Happy Pride and don’t forget that black trans women like Marsha P. Johnson fought for, and are the reason we have the rights that we as lgbtq+ people have today!!!
I have a research background in weight stigma and I currently work in mental health, often with LGBTQ+ clients.
I've met nonbinary people who struggle with disordered eating because they only ever see androgyny depicted as featureless thinness.
I've met trans women who struggle with disordered eating because they've internalized the idea that girls are meant to be thin, dainty, and delicate.
I've men trans men who struggle with disordered eating, because they feel women are allowed to be soft/curvy but men need to be muscular or thin and flat.
So many trans people are convinced that weight loss is the key to appearing as their desired gender, even when they want radically different gender presentations.
The societal idealization of thinness and fatphobia falsely invades and derails people's idea of what their "ideal body" should look like.
All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.
I dunno, stop apologizing for your art. This includes not posting enough, too much, changing style, inconsistent style, repetition, subject. Its your art its your expression. Have fun.
not everything in a story has to or should be "realistic" but in my opinion there's a level of illusion that should be maintained, and I think that's the actual problem that many people try to pinpoint with the "unrealistic" criticism. Dialogue shouldn't be written like an actual transcript of human speech, but should contribute to the illusion of a real person speaking. A character is a tool of the story, not a narrative, but we're trying to maintain the illusion that they are a person. Worldbuilding should exist to serve the story, not to be a perfect simulacrum of how every aspect of nature/society etc. would actually play out for real. But there should be the illusion that it could be real, that organizations and systems would operate in such a way, that people might behave in such a way.
in conclusion: "Is this realistic?" <<wrong question. "Does this serve the illusion or disrupt it?" <<now we're talking
My requests are open! I am willing to draw for the following fandoms:
Hermitcraft
ROTTMNT
Danny Phantom
American Dragon: Jake Long
Marvel (most familiar with Squirrel Girl, Moon Knight, and Spider-Man)
DCU (most familiar with Super Sons [Jon & Damian], Impulse, Captain Marvel/Shazam, Blue Beetle [Jaime & Khaji])
No suggestive content and no OCs, sorry!
Try to keep requests simple and leave room for interpretation
(ex: "can you draw something from [xyz au]?" or "Could we see Bart Allen and Khaji Da interacting?" or "Could you draw Danny Phantom lost in a forest?" etc.)
I am willing to draw other peoples' AUs if the AU's creator is okay with it
I can't guarantee quality and I may deny requests for any reason, but I'll try not to.
Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.
Why are people scared of defining Superman's ideals/ why he's boring sometimes
I've said before that post-Snyderverse, there's this contrarian tendency people have where they distill Superman down into a list of aesthetic traits (bright colors, smile, save cats from trees, fix property that he damages in action sequences, be nice for free) with no real substance behind them.
And it's led to this new era of "Superman is a nice guy! Is it that hard to believe people can want to do good things?". Shows like MAWS perpetuate this rhetoric and it's so intellectually dishonest. It's a way of getting around basic character motivation. Because that tells me nothing about Clark's character. Batman, Lex Luthor, Harvey Dent, etc are all characters who believe they're good people doing good things.
If I asked you "why does Harvey Dent believe what he does is morally correct? Why does he act based on the whims of a coin flip?" I'd get a thorough response back. Life experience (abusive dad, time as a lawyer, acid face incident, crumbling mental health from pressures of a mayoral campaign and undiagnosed DID) led to Harvey believing in chance as the great equalizer. I'd probably get a similarly detailed response if I asked about Batman's motivations. My writing prof once said "a hero is a character who strongly believes in an ideal and will sacrifice anything, including themselves, for that goal. A villain is the same thing. The protagonist is who the story is about. And that can be a hero or a villain."
But if I ask you "why does Superman do good things?" or "what informs Clark's ideals?", I get a weirdly vicious response back. "It's sociopathic to ask why people are nice without benefit!" "Lex Luthor mindset" "why are you acting like being nice is a plot hole" "being good for the sake of human empathy and decency? Why does that need to be justified?" "Why can't you fathom someone being kind for the sake of it?" "Because it's the right thing to do??" Or I'm told I'm smug for asking.
We're so used to seeing Superman as a popular media icon that saying "Superman is a good man who upholds American values because he was raised by good Kansas parents" is considered a sufficient enough answer for most people despite that being a nothing burger statement. Writers who stick to this mindset struggle to get compelling characterization out of Clark that isn't "Force of Good Who Fixes Things". What does being "good" even mean? That's so broad. A conservative and progressive person's idea of "good" are radically different. Clark got his ideals from his Kansas parents? Okay, what are the Kents' ideals then? "They're a classic American family" that hid an undocumented alien immigrant? And adopted him as their own? Surely that's considered pretty unamerican to conservative people. So no, that's not a sufficient answer.
I want to interrogate why people are so averse to answering this basic question. What are Superman's ideals?
The question of Superman's motives are explored many times in the comics. Better Superman writers take advantage of Clark's lived experience as a means of informing his heroism and ideals. For example, Grant Morrison's All Star Superman went for "A Superman who is tuned in to humanity's vulnerabilities based on his heightened Kryptonian senses- he understands how fragile the world is."
It's a pretty neat answer and certainly goes deeper than most Superman motivations. This is subjective on my part (and a hot take- I'm allowed to have different opinions), but I kinda find this dorky, haha. I get it, but personally I prefer it if Clark's ideals weren't so tied to his Kryptonian + Sun abilities or this implication that if you have "heightened abilities you have more empathy for life". Again, I get what it's going for but it's not my cup of tea!
What interests me is how Superman's lived experience as an immigrant inform his heroism- not so much his super powers. Yeah it would be useful if Clark used his heightened abilities to help people, but it comes with outing himself as an alien and being othered for it. So why does he take that risk? These were all questions I had Lois ask Superman in Private Interview- that's how compelling I think Clark can be as a character. If Clark had an initially flawed reason to go into heroism (to prove himself as the respectable, assimilated immigrant), even better! That's room for character growth. This is why I love Gene Yang's version of Clark. We get to see that growth.
When writers don't dig past "well he's just a nice guy" that's when we get boring Supermen. That's why I don't think it's baseless to say he's boring. I wouldn't blame you if you read one of the many times writers were satisfied with "Superman's just nice I guess." Heck, we've got a whole animated show about that. It's not the full picture, but there's many takes like this.
I believe there's something inherently insidious and conservative behind the push to just make Superman nice with no ideals. This side of the discourse will often argue that "good" is something that's magically inherit and natural in us, it's something we'll just know how to do thanks to the help of Kansas Parents(tm). When you ask these people to elaborate on this, the mask comes off and you get "Clark was raised in a good Christian family with Proper American Values" and that's the root of all this.
It's conservative to believe that Liberal Christian American values are universal and inherit to human nature. That it's something unquestioned and unchallenged. That it's not deeper than just being nice. Gone are any of Superman's political beliefs and personal experiences that inform his character- because if you look at Superman this way, you can project whatever you want on that mascot for vague goodness.
What these people don't want to hear is that empathy and altruism is something you have to work for. We live in a world where our government, education system and media landscape constantly tell us who is worthy of integrity and personhood. It takes work to care about marginalized people. It entails challenging what you're constantly told is unquestioned good. Maybe that means questioning what you're taught in history classes, or recognizing the history of racism and ableism that informs fields like that of science. Maybe it means moving past 5th grade understanding of biology as justification to oppress trans people.
Ages ago, I wrote a critique about the shallow inclusion of Thanksgiving in MAWS. In it, I try to engage with Thanksgiving as a political topic in the context of the show. In the show, it's just a reason for Clark to get together with his friends and family. In reality, it's a holiday that erases the genocide of Native Americans, re-appropriated to be a day of protest and mourning by indigenous communities. Surely the fictional undocumented immigrant survivor of planet-wide extinction, Superman, would have more to say about Thanksgiving than just sitting around and eating a Turkey.
The response I got for that critique was "you're reading too much into it. He's celebrating Thanksgiving because he's a good American Citizen". When your hero's classic motto is "Truth, Justice and the American Way" and you refuse to have a critical interrogation of what it means to be an undocumented immigrant in America, you open the doors for bigoted fans like this to identify with Superman. You left it vague, so there's room for them now. Superman's good, but not good enough to care about indigenous people, because that's Unamerican. That's why so many Superman fans are the most bigoted people I've met in fandom.
All this to say, it's important to be aware of instances when Superman becomes a corporation's vague mascot symbol of Unquestioned Good, without ever saying, doing, or elaborating on what being "good" would entail.
How would you interpret his friendship with Damian as the Supersons?
And would Damian’s Robin suit take design ques from his heritage on Talia’s side of the family like Jon’s does with Lois?
I have drawn Damian within the JL remix before, but I think that's a fun prompt as a superhero design! Here's my re-visit of Damian's Robin suit, infused with his heritage from Talia's side (along with some casual wear):
Jon and Damian's friendship is still the Supersons dynamic, but they also find comfort with each other as fellow diaspora kids.
There's an admiration and respect they have for each other, culturally, that makes their dynamic different from their respective dads' teamwork.
For class, we were assigned to reboot DC characters with new origins and designs. My sister and I got the Justice League as our project! We decided to tackle a Batman with Mental Illness. Featuring a rebooted Ten Eyed Man teaming up with Starro the Conqueror.
Last pages of our rebooted Justice League story for class! We drew all 11 pages in about one and a half weeks. This was a delightful labor of love, we cared a lot about these characters while also wanting to make them more inclusive to people :) Enjoy!
